Dec. 8, 1906 – Harvard 1:2 Haverford, Intercollegiate Championship in Association Football, Soldiers Field
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Blake scored twice for Haverford and Reggio countered for Harvard in a battle of unbeatens for the intercollegiate soccer title. “Two 25-minute halves were played, with no time out between them on account of the cold weather.”
Yale 1:4 Springfield YMCA Training School (Att.: 100)
Yale home-opener on “the coldest day of the winter in New Haven …”
Dec. 8, 1917 – Fall River Rovers 4:3 Bridgeport, National Cup match
Rovers convert two penalty kicks.
Dec. 8, 1923 – St. George’s 2×1 Boston Blues, Commonwealth Armory
“Indoor soccer opened with a bang.”
Roxbury v Holyoke Falcos, National Cup (U.S. Open Cup) third round replay, Walpole St. Grounds
“Walpole St. Grounds, where many great soccer games were played many years ago …”
Dec. 8, 1935 – Boston Celtics 2:2 Lusitania Recreation, Boston & District League game, Lincoln Park (Att.: 2,000)
Celtics (7W-2L-1D, 15 points) tied with Quincy Point Boys Club (6-0-3, 15 points) for first place.
Quincy Point Boys Club 1:0 Dorchester SC, Fore River Field
CMC Rovers (Chicopee, Mass.) 2:2 Boston FC, National Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup) second round match
Portuguese SC 4:0 Warren SC, USOC, East Providence
Ponta Delgada 3:3 [aet] Aldens, USOC, Bigberry Stadium
Gjoa (Brooklyn) 4:0 Hartford, USOC
Santo Christo SC 3:1 Trojan AC (New Bedford), U.S. Amateur Cup, Sargent Field (Att.: 400)
Andover FC 2:1 Bird & Son, Northern Massachusetts & New Hampshire Cup
Dec. 8, 1968 – Boston Astros 0:2 New York Internationals, Chelsea Stadium
Goals: Millar 2.
Andrew M. Nixon, 73, former Shawsheen Indians and General Electric player, dies in Lynn (Mass.) Hospital. Nixon played for Ayr United and won the 1925 U.S. Open Cup with Shawsheen
Dec. 8, 2014 – Revolution decline option on Shalrie Joseph; acquire Joe Nasco from Colorado in exchange for Geoffrey Castillion and Dimitry Imbongo
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