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Dec. 11, 1927 – Boston Celtics 1:3 Fore River Shamrocks, Sullivan Sq., Charlestown, Mass.

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Fore River lineup includes RH James McGonnigal, CH Jack McGonnigal, LH W. McGonnigal. James McGonnigal also boxed professionally after winning the New England amateur junior welterweight title. McGonnigal, “a member of a prominent local family of steel shipbuilders, was a member of the staff of the national office of the Industrial Union of Marine Shipbuilders of America, AFL-CIO. He had served as a president and executive secretary of Local 5 of Quincy shipbuilding union.” (James McGonnigal obit in Boston Globe, June 20, 1969) [Read more…] about Dec. 11, 1927 – Boston Celtics 1:3 Fore River Shamrocks, Sullivan Sq., Charlestown, Mass.

Dec. 13, 1930 – Quincy 5:0 (12:4 aggregate) Pawtucket, NE Schoolboy final (Att.: 2,000)

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The New England high school championship game in Quincy, Mass., featured one of the year’s biggest crowds, “… gathered round the ropes when the game started saw a really wonderful exhibition from these boys.” Brown scored three goals, McGuire and Jepson one. The game appears to have been conducted under FIFA rules, two 45-minute halves, referee and two linesman,  no substitutes utilized. [Read more…] about Dec. 13, 1930 – Quincy 5:0 (12:4 aggregate) Pawtucket, NE Schoolboy final (Att.: 2,000)

Jan. 6, 1923 – Quincy’s Tommy “Whitey” Fleming scores for J&P Coats

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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