Boston (18W-4L-7D, 43 points) leads ASL at halfway mark, clinching berth in post-season title game. Davids’ Stadium was located about two miles from the site of the New York Red Bulls’ stadium. Goal: Nilsen 16’.
Fall River FC 4:2 Providence (Att.: 3,500) [Read more…] about Jan. 8, 1928 – Newark Skeeters 0:1 Boston Wonder Workers, ASL game, Davids’ Stadium (Att.: 2,000)
Alex McNab opened the scoring and 19-year-old Bert Patenaude added the second goal for the Fall River Marksmen. Patenaude replaced Milton Gavin, a former Lusitania Recreation center forward; Patenaude joined Lusitania later in his career, after teaming with 20-year-old Billy Gonsalves (also a former Lusitania Recreation star) to lead the U.S. in the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. [Read more…] about Dec. 30, 1928 – Fall River Marksmen 2:0 (4:2) Boston SC, ASL Challenge Cup first round return leg
Christmas Day soccer games were conducted regularly in New England from the 1880s through at least the mid-1930s. [Read more…] about Christmas Day Soccer Football
“Boston played the one-back defense, and Newark was offside repeatedly.” (The Boston Globe)
Boston tied for first place with Fall River in ASL. Robert Blyth opened the scoring with his only goal in a two-game Boston career. Blyth, a cousin of Bill and Bob Shankly, played for Portsmouth and Southampton in England. Goals: Blyth, J. Ballantyne.
J&P Coats 3:0 Fall River, Coats’ Field (Att.: 3,500)
Goals: Drummond, Perry (PK), McGrain.
New Bedford Whalers 3:0 Philadelphia
Goals: Marshall, Jackson, Allen.
Charlestown FC 2:3 Roxbury, Sullivan Sq. Playground
“Roxbury played all the game with 10 men.” Meanwhile, Charlestown “Manager George Mooney will have M. Ring at center forward. A. Marques will also be in the forward line. Both players have played on the MIT team. They are natives of Uruguay, the home of the … Olympic champions and are the first players from South America to play in New England.”
Fore River 6:2 Lorraine Mills (Pawtucket, R.I.)
Worcester Rangers 4:0 Whitinsville, Central Mass. League
Clan Robertson 1:0 Clan Stewart, U.S. Amateur Cup, Gibson Field, Dorchester
Yale 2:1 [aet] Navy
Game length: two 20-minute halves, and two five-minute overtime periods.
Dec. 20, 1890 – Fall River Rovers 4:1 Fall River Olympics, Jarvis Field, Cambridge, Mass.
“…. The Fall River contingent … arrived home at 8 o’clock and the Rover men immediately began to paint County St., where the winning team’s clubs are situated, a bright red. The Olympics were favorites in betting … 50 to 10 … About $2,000 was wagered on the game by local sports.”
The game was “arranged by Gov.-elect Russell with Col. Spencer Borden of his prospective staff while the former was here to speak during the campaign.” There had been “a movement … to add Association foot ball to the regular list of sports at Harvard …”
The Rovers and Olympics had split two previous contests in 1890.
NEW ENGLAND SOCCER HISTORY
The Boston Wonder Workers planned to expand seating at the Walpole St. Grounds, their home from 1924-29. The stadium, built as a baseball park, occupied land owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, now on the campus of Northeastern University. [Read more…] about Dec. 15, 1924 – Boston Wonder Workers announce stadium expansion
Fall River regained first place in the ASL, rallying after falling behind in the first half before a crowd that included several Boston supporters. Wouterez opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, Tommy Croft equalizing “within a half minute …” Croft broke the deadlock in the 63rd minute. Croft, who began his career with Glentoran, scored once in three appearances for Northern Ireland.
“The Boston Soccer Social Club intends to run a special bus to Fall River on Sunday, to enable local fans to witness the American League game between Boston and Fall River at Sam Mark’s Stadium.” (The Boston Globe) [Read more…] about Dec. 14, 1924 – Fall River 2:1 Boston Wonder Workers, Mark’s Stadium (Att.: 8,337)
The Soccer Social Club of Boston and Royal Rooters were early supporters’ groups. The Soccer Social Club became affiliated with the Boston Wonder Workers of the ASL.
[Read more…] about Dec. 5, 1922 – The Soccer Social Club of Boston holds first meeting, Hotel Essex
Lusitania Recreation, an amateur club competing in the Massachusetts State League, had offered to replace Boston in the Atlantic Coast Soccer League. Providence had been scheduled to visit Boston in an ACSL game, but the Wonder Workers disbanded in a dispute over the rights to Dave McEachran. “Manager Sam Fletcher of the Providence team brought along his regular eleven, and it was well he had [Joe] Kennaway in goal, otherwise the Portuguese boys would have warmed things up for them.” [Read more…] about Nov. 28, 1929 – Lusitania Recreation 0:1 Providence Clamdiggers, Blake Field, East Cambridge, Mass.
A dispute over the status of outside left Dave McEachern, who had been “award(ed)” to the New Bedford Whalers caused the Wonder Workers to cease competing in the Atlantic Coast Soccer League. Boston manager “McDonald stated he would play no more games unless given a square deal.” [Read more…] about Nov. 27, 1929 – Boston Wonder Workers disband
“Few of the Woodsies [Wonder Workers] showed any aggressive soccer … What is the trouble with these holiday games?” Goals: Blair, McNab; Adams 2, McGrain, McAvoy. Note: J. Ballantyne (Boston) missed PK. [Read more…] about Nov. 26, 1925 – Boston Wonder Workers 2:4 J&P Coats, Thanksgiving Day game, Walpole St. Grounds