Soup Campbell

James Francis "Soup" Campbell


Born:
December 24, 1897
Homestead, PA

Died:
March 5, 1942
Lakeland, NJ


Career
1914-15 Homestead Shippers (Independent)
1915-16 Tower City - Pennsylvania (Independent)
1916-17 Pitcairn (IBLWP)
1917-18 Pitcairn (IBLWP)
1918-19 Wilmerding Airbrakes (ICL)
1919-20 Camden Skeeters (EBL)
1919-20 Nanticoke Nans (PSL)
1920-21 Camden Skeeters (EBL)
1920-21 Nanticoke Nans (PSL)
1920-21 Easthampton Hampers (IBL)
1921-22 Camden Skeeters (EBL)
1922-23 Camden Skeeters (EBL)
1922-23 Brooklyn Pros (MBL)
1922-23 Yonkers Chippewas (MBL)
1922-23 Cohoes Cohosiers (NYSL)
1922-23 Tri-Council (PBL)
1923-24 Trenton Royal Bengals (MBL)
1923-24 Kingston Shirtmakers (MBL)
1923-24 Tri-Council Caseys (PBL)
1923-24 Pottsville Big-5 - Pennsylvania (Independent)
1924-25 Passaic / Kingston Colonials (MBL)
1924-25 Trenton Royal Bengals (MBL)
1925-26 Camden Skeeters (EBL)
1925-26 Pottsville Miners (EBL)
1925-26 Perth Amboy Amboyans (MBL)
1925-26 Chicago Bruins (ABL)
1926-27 Philadelphia Quakers (ABL)
1927-28 Philadelphia Warriors (ABL)
1927-28 Detroit Cardinals (ABL)
1927-28 Cleveland Rosenblums (ABL)
1927-28 Salem (SJL)
1928-29 Trenton Royal Bengals (ABL)
1928-29 Salem (SJL)
1928-29 Milville (SJL)
1929-30 Camden (EBL)
1932-33 Philadelphia WPEN (EBL)

Campbell died of tuberculosis in 1942 at the age of 44.

He married Gladys (Alive) Frick in 1924 and they had two sons and a daughter.

Source:
Mount Carmel Item, June 5, 1924
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 6, 1942

Stats:
http://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/soup-campbell-2/