Jim Purvis was a Scottish former football inside forward who played professionally in the American Soccer League.
In 1922, he joined Fleisher Yarn which played in the Allied Amateur League of Philadelphia.
[2] Purvis scored twenty-one goals in twenty-two games before suffering a season ending ankle injury in April 1926.
He moved to the Bridgeport Bears in the fall of 1929, but when the team experienced significant financial difficulties with the onset of the Great Depression, the team merged with Philadelphia where Purvis finished his professional career.
In August 1935, Philadelphia United German-Hungarians hired Purvis to manage the team.