Joseph Delach was an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

right half In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

, coach, team executive and league president who spent his entire professional career with Pittsburgh Beadling. He is a member of the

National Soccer Hall of Fame The National Soccer Hall of Fame is a public-private partnership among FC Dallas, the City of Frisco, Frisco Independent School District, and the U.S. Soccer Federation, and currently located in Toyota Stadium (Texas), Toyota Stadium in Frisco, T ...

. Delach played for Pittsburgh Beadling from 1935 until his retirement as a player in 1946. He also coached the team into the early 1960s. He served as President of the Keystone League from 1962 to 1983 and was commissioner of the

National Amateur Cup The National Amateur Cup, also known as the USASA Amateur Cup, is an American knockout soccer competition open to all amateur teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation through United States Adult Soccer Association The Unite ...

for ten years. Delach is a member of the Beadling Hall of FameBeadling Hall of Fame
and was inducted into the

in 1973.

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National Soccer Hall of Fame profile
1910 births 1975 deaths American soccer coaches American men's soccer players American soccer chairmen and investors National Soccer Hall of Fame members Pittsburgh Beadling players 20th-century American businesspeople Men's association football midfielders 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-footy-midfielder-1910s-stub