Chick Albion

{{short description|American soccer player}}

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| name= Chick Albin

| fullname = John Albin

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| birth_date = 1890

| birth_place = Fall River, Massachusetts, United States

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| position = Goalkeeper

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| years1 = –1921

| years2 = 1921–1922

| clubs1 = Fall River Rovers

| clubs2 = Fall River United

| caps1 =

| caps2 = 24

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| goals2 = 0

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John "Chick" Albin (born 1890) was an American soccer goalkeeper who played in the Southern New England Soccer League and the American Soccer League. He was a three time National Challenge Cup finalist, winning one title, with the Fall River Rovers.

It is unknown when or where Albin began his career, but he was with the Fall River Rovers of the Southern New England Soccer League as early as the spring of 1915.[http://www.bethlehemsteelsoccer.org/gl041915.html April 19, 1915 The Globe] In the spring of 1916, he backstopped the Rovers to the 1916 National Challenge Cup finals where they fell to Bethlehem Steel.[http://www.bethlehemsteelsoccer.org/gl052216.html May 22, 1916 The Globe] The Rovers would meet Bethlehem in the next two challenge cups, winning in 1917 and losing again in 1918. Albion remained the Rovers’ starting goalkeeper in all three tournaments.[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesu/usacuphist.html USA - List of US Open Cup Finals]

Albin spent one season in the newly created American Soccer League with Fall River United.{{cite book | last = Jose | first = Colin | title = American Soccer League, 1921-1931 | type = Hardback | publisher = The Scarecrow Press | year = 1998 | id = ({{ISBN|0-8108-3429-4}}) }} He saw time in 24 games, allowing 57 goals for a 2.38 GAA.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1922.html |title=The Year in American Soccer – 1922 |access-date=2008-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616131600/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1922.html |archive-date=2008-06-16 |url-status=dead }}