“Ford” scored both goals and 17-year-old Tommy “Whitey” Fleming (listed at right outside forward) played one of his first matches for Fore River. [Read more…] about Dec. 28, 1907 – J&P Coats 2:0 Fore River, New England League series at Pawtucket, R.I.
Fore River’s Jack Kershaw, who had been expected to be a reserve, because of an ankle injury, scored eight minutes before halftime for Fore River. Marre and Dunn countered in the second half.
May 9, 1920 – St. Louis Ben Millers 2:1 Fore River SC at Federal League Baseball Park (Att.: 12,000)
Fore River hoped to capitalize on tactical savvy and technique, plus the fact the St. Louis teams “are used to playing only 60-minute games,” according to The Boston Globe. [Read more…] about May 9, 1920 – Fore River SC falls in U.S. Open Cup final
Today in NE Soccer History
Jan. 6, 1923 – Bethlehem Steel 1×1 J&P Coats – duel between ASL’s top two scorers
Tommy “Whitey” Fleming (22 goals) scores for Coats, a Daniel McNiven (28 goals) penalty kick equalizing late in the opening half. According to the 1/7/23 editions of The Boston Globe: Fleming capitalized on a failed clearance and “drove the ball into the net with (Findlay) Kerr having no chance to save.” Fleming “one of the outstanding wingers of his day,” according to Colin Jose’s The American Soccer League: The Golden Years of American Soccer, was 17 years old when he arrived from Ayshire to play for the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy (clubhouse and playing field still standing, btw). [Read more…] about Jan. 6, 1923 – Quincy’s Tommy “Whitey” Fleming scores for J&P Coats