Jimmy McAuley was an Irish football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 inside forward

Striker

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 who played professionally in Ireland and the United States.

McAuley is known to have played for Ards F.C.

Ards F.C.

Ards F.C. is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in IFA Championship 1. The club, founded in 1900, is from Newtownards, but plays its home matches at Dixon Park in Ballyclare, which it shares with Ballyclare Comrades...

 in the Irish League. In 1927, he signed with Philadelphia Celtic of the American Soccer League

American Soccer League

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. Before the 1927-1928 season, a new ownership group had renamed the Philadelphia Field Club the Celtic. They spent heavily on Irish players, but the team lasted only ten games before being suspended by the league for financial irregularities. He then moved to the Fall River Marksmen

Fall River Marksmen

Fall River Marksmen was a United States soccer club, based in Fall River, Massachusetts. They originally played as Fall River United before becoming known as the Marksmen after their owner, Sam Mark. During the 1920s and early 1930s they were one of the most successful soccer clubs in the United...

 for the last twenty-two games of the 1927-1928 season. McAuley began the 1928-1929 season in Fall River before going on loan to J&P Coats. He was back in Fall River the next season and played there through the 1929-1930 season. In March 1930, the Marksmen defeated Cleveland Bruell Insurance

Cleveland Bruell Insurance

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 in the 1930 National Challenge Cup

1930 National Challenge Cup

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. In the first game, McAuley scored a hat trick as Fall River easily disposed of Cleveland by a score of 7 to 2. The fall 1930 he moved to Pawtucket Rangers

Pawtucket Rangers

J. & P. Coats was an American soccer club team of the J. & P. Coats Company based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island having been founded in 1900.The club played won the Rhode Island League in 1914 then was an inaugural member of the semi-pro Southern New England Soccer League...

and played through at least 1931 with them.