“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