He was also selected as a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1936 but couldn't afford to take the eight weeks off work to make the trip.†During his time with the German-Americans, the club won the American Soccer League (ASL) title in 1935, and later, as the Philadelphia Americans, won league titles in 1942, 1944 and 1947, and the ASL Lewis Cup in 1941 and 1943. He played fullback for the ASL All-Stars in a major international match against a Scottish touring team at the Polo Grounds in New York in 1939 and for the Eastern U.S. Select Team against the same touring team in the same year.†His career began at Girard College where he played varsity from 1926-1929. He joined the Philadelphia National League in 1929, playing for Corinthians in his first year, for Upper Darby 1930-31, and for the Kensington Blue Bells, the 1931-32 winners of the Allied Cup and Pennsylvania League runners-up, before joining the German-Americans. He won Penn State League championships in 1932-33 and 1933-34, and state open and amateur championships from 1932-1935.†He was a three-time Pennsylvania League all-star.

The Hall of Fame recently reconnected with Albert Harker and participated in a reception at the ManorCare facility in which he lived. Four generations of Harkers were present for the reception where the Hall of Fame presented Albert with his Hall of Fame medal and reviewed photographs of the teams on which he played, extending the Hall’s knowledge of his soccer career.