“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
Most of the Riversides’ players grew up on River St. in Lynn, Mass., and played at the “old” Cooper St. Ground in West Lynn, “which has been an incubator for soccer players … These boys have made it perfectly plain that soccer can be played just as successfully by the lads born here as those who come from across the water.” [Read more…] about Nov. 25 1930 – Reigning Bay State League champion Lynn Riversides league leaders
“Arnold Oliver, youthful inside man for the Threadmen, broke the ice just two minutes before the end of the first half, when he headed a cross from Pete Sweeney into the net” as J&P Coats blanked the Boston Wonder Workers.
“… the Threadmen completely avenged the 2-to-0 setback administered by the Hub eleven Columbus Day.” [Read more…] about Nov. 24, 1927 – J&P Coats 3:0 Boston Wonder Workers, Thanksgiving Day ASL game, Pawtucket, R.I.
Christian Ohiri scored twice in his final game for Harvard (6-1-0, 12 points), which tied Brown for first place in the Ivy League standings, on the day of JFK’s assassination. Goals: Upton, Lambert; Ohiri 2, Akuffo.
Elizabethtown 5:0 Colby, NCAA regional tournament, Tufts Oval
Colby (10W-2L-1D) coached by John Winkin, who guided the White Mules’ baseball team and went on to extensive career coaching Maine’s baseball team. [Read more…] about Nov. 22, 1963 – Yale 2:3 Harvard, Varsity Soccer Field, New Haven
D.C. United won the MLS Cup title for the third time in four years, defeating the LA Galaxy for the second time at Foxboro Stadium. Goals: Moreno, Olsen. [Read more…] about Nov. 21, 1999 – D.C. United 2:0 LA Galaxy, MLS Cup, Foxboro Stadium (Att.: 44,910)
The U.S. (4W-1L-3D, 11 points) vaulted past Trinidad & Tobago into second place on the final day of CONCACAF qualifying for the 1990 World Cup. Goal: Caligiuri 30’.
Nov. 19, 1989 – North Carolina 2:0 Colorado College, NCAA Women’s Championship, Raleigh, N.C.
The New England Revolution scored in regulation time for the first time in an MLS Cup final before losing to the Dynamo for the second successive year. The Revolution, who had fallen in the 2002, ’05, ’06 finals, had been shut out in the post-season before Taylor Twellman’s 113th-minute goal snapped their 331-minute scoreless streak. Goals: Ngwenya, De Rosario; Twellman.
Nov. 18, 1990 – University of North Carolina 6:0 UConn at Chapel Hill, N.C. [Read more…] about Nov. 18, 2007 – Houston Dynamo 2:1 New England Revolution, MLS Cup final, RFK Stadium (Att.: 39,859)
The U.S. improved its unbeaten streak to 29 games against CONCACAF competition and knocked Jamaica out of 2006 World Cup contention. The Revolution’s Clint Dempsey made his U.S. national team debut, and teammates Steve Ralston and Taylor Twellman made their first qualifying appearances.. Goals: E. Johnson; A. Williams (PK). [Read more…] about Nov. 17, 2004 – U.S. 1:1 Jamaica, Crew Stadium (Att.: 9,088)
Yale blanked Columbia in the Bulldogs’ inaugural football game: “… the game resembled a soccer match with twenty players on a side … Tommy Sherman booted the first Yale goal and Lew Irwin kicked the other two.” [Read more…] about Nov. 16, 1872 – Yale 3:0 Columbia, Yale’s inaugural game, Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn. (Att.: 500)
Diego Fagundez was a 15-year-old Leominster High School freshman when he signed with the Revolution. Fagundez (b. Feb. 14, 1995 in Montevideo) ranks third with 50 regular-season goals on the all-time Revolution scoring list. [Read more…] about Nov. 15, 2010 – Revolution sign Diego Fagundez to Homegrown contract