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Werner Mieth
1974 Inductee
Midfielder
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1942 - 1952
ASL Champion
Home States
New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Midfielder who played in the ASL from 1933 to 1962 and won five league championships with the Philadelphia Americans in the 1940s and ’50s. Mieth, who emigrated from Germany in 1925, moved into the ASL when the Newark Germans team he was playing for joined the league in 1933. He eventually also played for Kearny Irish, Trenton Highlanders, Paterson Dovers, Philadelphia Americans and Elizabeth Falcons, winning titles with Philadelphia in 1942, 1944, 1947, 1948 and 1952. Inducted in 1974.