Tranmere Rovers
Which team did George Moorhouse play for from 1921 to 1923?
George Moorhouse George Moorhouse ( April 4 , 1901 – October 12 , 1943 ) was the first native of England to appear in a FIFA World Cup ( albeit as a member of the U.S . team rather than for England ) . He spent most of his playing career in the United States and earned seven caps with the U.S . national team . He was a member of the U.S . teams at the 1930 FIFA World Cup and 1934 FIFA World Cup . Moorhouse was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986 . Club career . A native of England , Moorhouse served in the British Merchant Marine during the First World War . After the war , he decided to try his luck in soccer . Predominantly left sided , Moorhouse had an unsuccessful trial with Leeds United . However , he did play two first team matches ( December 26 , 1921 versus Ashington and January 28 , 1922 versus Accrington Stanley ) whilst with Tranmere Rovers in the old Third Division North during the 1921-22 season . He then played with the Rovers reserve team in the Cheshire League . In 1923 he emigrated to Canada , eventually gaining a position with the Montreal Canadian Pacific Railway team . He spent only a few months with Montreal before transferring to the Brooklyn Wanderers of the American Soccer League ( ASL ) . He played in only three games before moving to New York Giants where he remained for the next seven seasons , scoring 45 goals in over 250 games . In 1928 , the Giants were expelled from the ASL during the Soccer War and Moorhouse remained with them during their season and a half in the Eastern Professional Soccer League . In 1929 , Moorhouse and the Giants returned to the ASL . In the summer of 1930 , the Giants were sold to new ownership which renamed the team the New York Soccer Club . Then in 1931 , the team merged with the Fall River Marksmen to become the New York Yankees for the 1931 spring season . In the fall of 1931 , Moorhouse moved to the New York Americans . In 1933 , the first ASL collapsed , to be replaced by a new league , also known as the American Soccer League . The Americans joined the new league and Moorehouse played with them until 1937 leading that side to two National Challenge Cup titles . National team . Moorhouse earned his first cap in a 6-1 victory over Canada on November 6 , 1926 . While he was not called into the team for either of the U.S . games in 1928 , he was selected for the U.S . squad at the 1930 FIFA World Cup . The Americans accepted the offer from FIFA to participate in the World Cup and Moorhouse would play in all three matches in Uruguay as a defender . The first U.S . game , a 3-0 victory over Belgium on July 13 , 1930 at Parque Central in Montevideo , made Moorhouse the first native-born Englishman to play in the World Cup . Moorhouse then played the next two matches as the U.S . went to the semifinals only to fall to Argentina in a particularly physical game . Several U.S . players were injured and the team finished with only eight fit field players and a lame goalkeeper as substitutes were not allowed . The U.S . did not have any international matches until the 1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy . Moorhouse was selected as team captain for the cup . Because the U.S . had applied late for entry into the Cup , the team had to play a qualification match against Mexico in Italy . The U.S . won , 4-2 , but was eliminated in the first round by Italy . He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986 . Date of death . While the National Soccer Hall of Fame lists Moorhouses date of death as July 13 , 1982 , several other sources have conflicting information . Colin Jose , who has served as a historian with the Hall of Fame , lists the date as October 12 , 1943 in his history of the American Soccer League . Finally , Dave Litterer , who writes extensively on U.S . soccer , noted that in 1943 , ASL veterans mourned the passing of George Moorhouse , one of its premier players during the 1930s and a frequent participant with the National team , having earned a cap in every one of its games between 1930 and 1938 . External links . - National Soccer Hall of Fame bio - Photo of 1930 World Cup squad