# Paddy Butler

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**Patrick Butler** was an Irish [soccer](/source/Soccer) player who appears to have spent his entire career in the U.S. leagues. He was a member of the [Bethlehem Steel](/source/Bethlehem_Steel_F.C._(1907%E2%80%9330)) teams which won the [1916 National Challenge Cup](/source/1916_National_Challenge_Cup) and the [1917](/source/1917_American_Cup) and [1919 American Cup](/source/1919_American_Cup) Butler began his career on the front line, playing both inside and outside forward on both sides of the field. He ended his career at the right half back position.

In the fall of 1913, [Brooklyn Celtic](/source/Brooklyn_Celtic) of the New York Amateur Association Football League signed Butler and several other top players. This produced a team which won both the league title and the Southern New York State Foot Ball Association Cup.[1] In May 1914, Butler and his teammates fell to [Brooklyn Field Club](/source/Brooklyn_Field_Club) in the final of the [1914 National Challenge Cup](/source/1914_National_Challenge_Cup). He then moved to Brooklyn Field Club for the [1914–15 National Association Foot Ball League season](/source/1914%E2%80%9315_National_Association_Foot_Ball_League_season). In 1915, he signed the Bethlehem Steel, then competing in the American Soccer League of Philadelphia. On October 25, 1915, the *Bethlehem Globe* mentioned "Butler, a new man being given a try-out at inside right as a partner to Dean."[2] That season, Butler and his teammates won the [1916 National Challenge Cup](/source/1916_National_Challenge_Cup).[3] On May 13, 1917, Butler scored a goal in Bethlehem's 7–0 defeat of [West Hudson A.A.](/source/West_Hudson_A.A.) in the [1917 American Cup](/source/1917_American_Cup). It was considered "the best goal of the game."[4] That fall, Bethlehem entered the [National Association Football League](/source/National_Association_Football_League), winning the league title in 1919. Bethlehem took the double that season when they defeated [Paterson F.C.](/source/Paterson_Silk_Sox) to win the [1919 American Cup](/source/1919_American_Cup) title. In that game, a 2–0 victory, Butler scored the first goal in the eleventh minute. In the summer of 1919, he moved to the [Philadelphia Merchant Ship](/source/Philadelphia_Merchant_Ship) team.[5] Merchant Ship folded at the end of the season and he played for Goodrich in Akron, Ohio from 1920 to 1921. In 1921, the [American Soccer League](/source/American_Soccer_League_(1921-1933)) replaced the NAFBL as the top U.S.league. Butler spent one season in the new league playing for [Fall River United](/source/Fall_River_United).[6]

## References

1. "Yonkers F.C. Defeated". (October 6, 1913). *The Yonkers Herald*, p.6 col.7

1. [October 25, 1915 Bethlehem Globe](https://web.archive.org/web/20091028130416/http://geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer/gl102515.html)

1. "Soccer Title To Bethlehem". (May 7, 1916). *Boston Sunday Globe*, p.8 col.6

1. [May 14, 1917 Bethlehem Globe](https://web.archive.org/web/20091028130627/http://geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer/gl051417.html)

1. [June 23, 1919 Bethlehem Globe](https://web.archive.org/web/20091028131129/http://geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer/gl072319c.html)

1. "Cream Of Soccer Talent Signed". (September 10, 1921). *The Evening Herald*, p.7 col.4-5

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