Career
He played five seasons in the American Soccer League and earned two caps with the United States. national team, one at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Deal earned two caps with the United States. national team in 1928. The first came at the 1928 Summer Olympics when the United States. lost to Argentina 11-2.
Following this loss, the United States. tied Poland, 3-3, on June 10, 1928.
In 1928, Deal played for Wolfenden Shore F.C. in the Allied American Football Association. He then went on to score eleven goals for the Philadelphia Centennials of the Eastern Professional Soccer League in the spring of 1929.
He may have played the first half of the 1928-1929 season, but he did not make the goals list. At the end of the season, Philadelphia withdrew from the league and in August 1929, Deal signed with New York Hispano.
However, at some time during the 1929-1930 season, he played two games, scoring two goals with the Newark Skeeters.
The English as Second Language continued to exist through 1930 when it folded. Deal’s career becomes difficult to follow after 1929. After the collapse of the first American Soccer League (Advanced Systems Limited) in spring 1933, it was quickly replaced by the second Advanced Systems Limited that fall.
He then continued to play in the Advanced Systems Limited until 1938, seeing time with Brooklyn Hispano and ending with Philadelphia Passon.