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Birthplace Scotland

Jim Purvis was a Scottish former football inside forward who played professionally in the American Soccer League. Purvis played for several youth teams, but never played professionally in Scotland before moving the United States and settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1922, he joined Fleisher Yarn which played in the Allied Amateur League of Philadelphia. Fleisher moved up to the American Soccer League in 1924 and Purvis scored seventeen goals in thirty-five league games and another two goals in two league cup games. On July 29, 1925, Purvis signed with Bethlehem Steel. Purvis scored twenty-one goals in twenty-two games before suffering a season ending ankle injury in April 1926.

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