Paterson Rangers

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Paterson Rangers was a U.S. soccer team which played in Paterson, New Jersey during the early twentieth century. They spent two seasons in New York’s Metropolitan Association Football League and nine in the National Association Football League

Paterson, New Jersey City in Passaic County, New Jersey, U.S.

Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, making it New Jersey's third-most-populous city. Paterson has the second-highest density of any U.S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City. For 2017, the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 148,678, an increase of 1.7% from the 2010 enumeration, making the city the 174th-most-populous in the nation.

The National Association Football League (NAFBL) was a semi-professional U.S. soccer league which operated between 1895 and 1898. The league was reconstituted in 1906 and continued to operate until 1921.

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History

The origins of the Paterson Rangers is unknown, but they entered the Metropolitan Association Football League for the 1904-1905 season and on April 25, 1905 lost to the New York Caledonians in the semifinals of the New York State Cup. [1] In 1906, the Rangers joined the professional National Association Football League and remained in that league until 1915. No records for the Rangers exist after that year.

Year-by-year

YearLeagueStandingAmerican Cup
1904/05 MAFL ? ?
1905/06 MAFL ? ?
1906/07 NAFBL 6th ?
1907/08 NAFBL 2nd ?
1908/09 NAFBL 6th ?
1909/10 NAFBL 7th Third round
1910/11 NAFBL 3rd ?
1911/12 NAFBL 4th Final
1912/13 NAFBL 8th First Round
1913/14 NAFBL 5th ?
1914/15 NAFBL 7th ?

Honors

League Championship

  • Runner Up (1): 1908

American Cup

  • Runner Up (1): 1912

Clan MacDonald Cup

  • Winner (1): 1909

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