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Tag: James F. Campbell

  • Basketball States: James F. Campbell

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    Name: James F. “Soup” Campbell Height: 5′ 9″ Weight: 160 lbs College: None Born: 1896 Died: March 4, 1942 Hometown: Homestead, PA. Year Team League GA FGM FTM FTA PCT AST PTS AVG 1914-1915 Homestead Shippers Indep 1915-1916 Tower City (Pa) Indep 26 86 0 172 6.6 1916-1917 Pitcairn IBLWP 17 76 9 161 9.5…

  • James F. “Soup” Campbell

    James F. “Soup” Campbell

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    James Francis “Soup” Campbell was born on December 24, 1897, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He likely learned to play basketball at the Homestead YMCA under the guidance of Sandy Shields, a star of the 23rd Street Wanderers. Fellow Homestead natives Jackie Adams and Roy Steele were also trained by Shields, and together, they developed one of…

  • Cager Dies at Camden

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    The Evening News, Harrisburg, PA – March 6, 1942 CAMDEN, N. J., March B. — James (Soup) Campbell, known in pro basketball in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than ten years, died in a hospital here yesterday. Campbell, 44, and a native of Homestead, Pa., was a star in the old Eastern Professional League.