12 Facts About Bert Patenaude

Bertrand "Bert" Arthur Patenaude was an American soccer player who played as a forward.

Bert Patenaude is a member of the United States Soccer Hall of Fame.

Bert Patenaude remained in Fall River until the summer of 1930, winning the 1930 National Challenge Cup before moving to the Newark Americans.

The ASL was collapsing by the fall of 1931 and records are incomplete, but it appears that in 1933, Bert Patenaude signed with the Philadelphia German-Americans of the second American Soccer League.

In 1934, Bert Patenaude moved west to sign with St Louis Central Breweries of the St Louis Soccer League, at that point the only professional league in the country.

Bert Patenaude remained with the team, now called the St Louis Shamrocks.

In 1936, Bert Patenaude returned east where he played one season with Philadelphia Passon of the ASL before he disappeared from the professional scene.

Bert Patenaude returned to Fall River and worked in painting and carpentry until his death in 1974.

In 1930, Bert Patenaude was called into the US national team for the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

FIFA announced on November 10,2006, that Bert Patenaude was the first person to score a hat-trick in World Cup play, confirming that he scored all three goals.

Bert Patenaude was inducted into the US Soccer Hall of Fame in 1971.

Bert Patenaude died in Fall River on his sixty-fifth birthday.