# Philadelphia Merchant Ship

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**Philadelphia Merchant Ship F.C.** was a short-lived U.S. [soccer](/source/Soccer) team of the early twentieth century. It spent two seasons in the [National Association Football League](/source/National_Association_Football_League) and went to the semifinals of the 1919 [American Cup](/source/American_Cup).

## History

Philadelphia Merchant Ship was the company team for the [W. Averell Harriman](/source/W._Averell_Harriman)’s Shipbuilding Company located on the [Delaware River](/source/Delaware_River) near [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania](/source/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania).[1] The team exploded onto the national scene in 1918. That year it entered the [National Association Football League](/source/National_Association_Football_League), finishing tied for second with [Paterson F.C.](/source/Paterson_F.C._(NAFBL)), but defeated them in a run off game to take sole possession of second place. That summer, the company entered two teams, Merchant Ship “A” and Merchant Ship “B” in the [National Challenge Cup](/source/National_Challenge_Cup). Both were eliminated in the second round. However, Merchant Ship “A” went to the semifinals of the [American Cup](/source/American_Cup) before falling to [Paterson F.C.](/source/Paterson_F.C._(NAFBL)) and Merchant Ship “B” won the Allied Amateur Cup.[2] The team experienced an immediate drop off in performance the next season, finishing ninth in the NAFBL standings. The team withdrew from the league at the end of the season and disbanded.

## Year-by-year

Year League Reg. season American Cup National Challenge Cup 1918/19 NAFBL 2nd Semifinal Second round 1919/20 NAFBL 9th ? Second round

## Honors

**League Championship**

- - **Runner Up (1):** 1919

## External links

- [National Association Football League standings](https://web.archive.org/web/20071030042659/http://www.sover.net/%7Espectrum/nafbl.html)

## References

1. ["Bethlehem Steel"](http://geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer/gl041920b.html). *The Globe*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20091028131108/http://geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer/gl041920b.ht) October 28, 2009 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["U.S. Soccer Archives - 1919"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080116235108/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1919.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1919.html) on 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2008-02-08.

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