Vernon Reese

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Vernon R. Reese (born April 23, 1910 , † January 1995 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American football player and official. In 1957 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the "Official" category.

life and career

Vernon Reese was born on April 23, 1910 and began his footballing career as a child during the First World War . In 1926, when he was still young, he organized a soccer team that ran under the name Rinky Dinks . He later played in the Greater Baltimore Soccer League in the 13th Division , a league that in all likelihood was formed in the early 1920s. In 1929 he played for the Baltimore Soccer Club , which is also considered the earliest known club to win a Baltimore league. The team appeared in the aforementioned Greater Baltimore Soccer League , with Vernon Reese ending his playing career in 1938 after a knee injury after he had only played for the Baltimore Soccer Club up to this point. Subsequently, in the same year he started a soccer clinic in Patterson Park in the southeast of Baltimore, which he ran every Sunday until 1982, and thus for 44 years. He also founded the Football League of the Catholic Youth Organization in 1958 , which was established in 1930 by Bishop Bernard James Sheil in Chicago . At the beginning there were eight teams in this league; In 1983 she already had 160 different teams. In 1957 Reese was inducted into the Maryland Soccer Hall of Fame ; the same year he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the Official category . After Millard Lang in 1950 and Alfredda Iglehart in 1951, he was the third person from Maryland to be inducted into this hall of fame. Vernon Reese, one of the greatest football teachers in the region, died in January 1995 in his hometown of Baltimore, at the age of 84.

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  1. ↑ a b Vernon Reese on the official website of the US Football Association ( memento of the original from November 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed August 25, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  2. ↑ BALTIMORE SOCCER HISTORY  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on August 26, 2016@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.marylandmajorsoccer.com  
  3. ^ National Hall of Fame Recipients From Maryland , accessed August 26, 2016
  4. ^ Hall of Fame Members from Maryland , accessed August 26, 2016
  5. ↑ Vernon R. Reese - Death Record  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on August 26, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / death-records.mooseroots.com  
personal data
SURNAME Reese, Vernon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reese, Vernon R. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1910
DATE OF DEATH January 1995
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland , United States