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These are the statistics of the Fall 1929 American Soccer League.


Overview

At the beginning of the
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season, the league initiated a struggle with the
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. The controversy centered on the
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, but was really about the question of who controlled soccer in the United States, the team owners or the federation bureaucrats. In September 1928, the league announced it was boycotting the Challenge Cup. Three teams decided to defy the league and enter the cup:
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, Newark Skeeters and
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. By the end of September, the American Soccer League had suspended the three teams. The USFA responded by suspending the ASL, making it an outlaw league according to FIFA rules. The USFA then went further and created a new league, the Eastern Professional Soccer League, made up of the three ex-ASL teams as well as several from the Southern New York Soccer Association. The two competing leagues, the American Soccer League and Eastern Professional Soccer League vied for fans and public support during the 1928-29 season. Several teams and players jumped between the two leagues during the season. Other, European, players returned to Europe in order to retain their FIFA standing. By the summer of 1929, both leagues were in some financial difficulty. Despite this, they both began a 1929-1930 season while simultaneously holding talks on declaring a truce.TRUCE DECLARED IN SOCCER CONTROVERSY
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which exacerbated the financial problems and gave the two leagues and USFA the motivation to find a solution to the conflict. The two leagues continued to play for several more weeks, but by the beginning of November, 1929, both leagues had suspended operations and agreed to merge into one league called the Atlantic Coast League. The Atlantic Coast league began its
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on November 6, 1929. Therefore the standings reflect less than one half of the originally scheduled season. The ASL declared Fall River F.C. the champions.


League standings


Goals leaders


See also

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References


External links


The Year in American Soccer - 1929
{{American Soccer League (1921-1933) seasons Fall 1929
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