The Hoods (James, William, Thomas, James and Others)
When football began in Kearny and therefore soccer in the USA a few names stand out as featuring as players and/or officials or administrators. Amongst them are, of course, the Clarks, the Clarks of Paisley but there are also Robert Raeburn, James Lennox, John Gray, Roderick MacDonald and the Hoods, James, William and Thomas.
The surname first appears already in 1884-5 as W. and John, both members of Kearny Rangers, and are joined in that same team the following season by T. Hood. Furthermore, as John appears in 1888 to move across the Passaic River to Newark Caledonians he is joined first by an S. Hood and then a W. once more. Moreover, in 1906 an East Newark so Kearny Hood, this time a James, is refereeing and in-between
With Archie Stark David "Davey" Brown, the younger by two years, was the other great goal-scorer of American soccer of the 1920s and the early 1930s. In fact they both were born and grew up in Kearny in New Jersey aka Soccertoun USA and lived most of their lives there too, never more than a mile or so apart.
In fact the only major difference between them was that, whilst Stark, indeed the Starks were Scots by birth, Brown was "a native", born in the USA, albeit one of mixed ancestry, his father and/or grandfather, his mother or both said to be Scots, depending on source.
Birth Locator:
1898 - East Newark, New Jersey, USA
Residence Locations:
1900 - 501, John St./Sherman Ave., East Newark, Hudson, New Jersey, USA
1910 - 501, John St./Sherman Ave., East Newark, Hudson, New Jersey, USA
1915 - 501, John St./Sherman Ave., Kearny, New Jersey, USA
1917 - 412, John St., Kearny, New Jersey, USA
1918-40 - 45, Duke St., Kearny, New Jersey, USA
1950 - 121, Kearny Ave., Kearny, New Jersey, USA
1970 - Kearny, New Jersey, USA
Death Locator:
1970 - Kearny, New Jersey, USA
Grave Locator:
Arlington Cemetery, by Kearny, New Jersey, USA
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