Moses “Moritz” or “Moschkatz” Häusler (July 20, 1901 in Solotvyn[1] – December 24, 1952 in Vienna) was an early twentieth century Austrian football inside forward who played professionally in Austria and the United States.
Häusler began his career with Vienna based youth teams Armania and Romania.
Impressed by the high pay and low level of anti-Semitism compared to Europe, Häusler and several of his team mates decided to return to the United States to play in the American Soccer League.
Known as the “Soccer War”, it led to the USFA declaring the ASL an “outlaw league” in the fall of 1928.
[2] Declining to play with an “outlaw team” Häusler jumped to the competing, and legal, Eastern Professional Soccer League where he signed with New York Hakoah.