John Fernley

1951 Inductee

1915 - 1917

President of the USFA

1913 - 1915

First Vice President of the USFA

Home States

Massachusetts

The second president of the U.S. Football Association, serving in that position from 1915 to 1917. Fernley was a delegate from Southern New England at the time that the USFA was founded in 1913 and was elected as first vice president of the new organization. He then was president of the USFA at the time that it formed the first U.S. National Team, sending that team on a tour of Sweden and Norway in 1916. Inducted in 1951.

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