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1928–29 American Soccer League
Statistics of American Soccer League (1921-1933), American Soccer League in season 1928–29. Overview The first half of the 1928-29 season began on September 1, 1928. This season saw the onset of the Soccer War., a struggle between the American Soccer League and the United States Football Association for control of the sport. It began when the league boycotted the National Challenge Cup in September 1928. Within a week, three ASL teams, Bethlehem Steel, Newark Skeeters and New York Giants, defied the boycott and entered the cup. On September 24, 1928, Bill Cunningham, president of the American Soccer League, suspended the three teams and fined them each $1000.00. In response, the USFA helped create a competing league, the Eastern Professional Soccer League which included the three teams suspended by the ASL, as well as teams from the Southern New York Soccer Association and the newly created New York Hakoah. In a bizarre twist, the first half of the season ended for some te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Soccer League (1921–33)
American Soccer League may refer to: * American Soccer League (1921–1933), from 1921 to 1933 * American Soccer League (1933–1983), from 1933 to 1983 * American Soccer League (1988–1989), from 1988 to 1989 * American Soccer League (2014–2017) The American Soccer League (ASL) was an American soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel ..., from 2014 to 2017 See also * American League of Professional Football, a soccer league in 1894 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Soccer Club
The Boston Soccer Club was a member of the American Soccer League. They were renamed the Boston Bears for the Fall 1929 ASL season. In 1925, the ASL and the St. Louis Soccer League (SLSL) boycotted the National Challenge Cup, now known as the U.S. Open Cup. The "Wonder Workers" or "Woodsies" (after team president G. A. G. Wood), as they were dubbed, had won the 1925 league cup, known as the Lewis Cup. That victory qualified them for the one time American Professional Soccer Championship pitting them against the Ben Millers, the top team in the St. Louis Soccer League. The 'Wonder Workers' defeated the Ben Millers in three games. The 'Wonder Workers' won the Lewis Cup again in 1927. After the 1925/26 ASL season the 'Wonder Workers', the Brooklyn Wanderers and the New Bedford Whalers joined with four top Canadian clubs to form the one-off International Soccer League held that summer and early fall. Year-by-year References W Defunct soccer clubs in Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark's Stadium
Mark's Stadium is a former football (soccer), soccer stadium located in North Tiverton, Rhode Island. During the 1920s and early 1930s it was the home of Fall River F.C. (1922–1931), Fall River F.C., one of the era’s most successful soccer teams. It is one of the earliest examples of a soccer-specific stadium in the United States.''Soccer in a Football World - The Story of America’s Forgotten Game'' (2006) : David Wangeri/ref> After the demise of the 'Marksmen', the stadium was used as a home ground by other local teams, most notably Fall River F.C. (1932) and Ponta Delgada S.C. History In 1922 Sam Mark won the bid over the Fall River United/Rover joint bid to head the American Soccer League (1921-1933), American Soccer League's Fall River F.C. (1922–1931), Fall River franchise. Mark was willing to invest in the club and one of his first moves was to build the team its own stadium. He located it in North Tiverton, Rhode Island, just over the Massachusetts border from Fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Chedgzoy
Samuel Chedgzoy (27 January 1889 – 7 January 1967) was an English footballer who changed the laws of the game. He played professionally for Everton, the New Bedford Whalers and Montréal Carsteel FC. He also earned eight caps with the England national team. Biography Club career Born 27 January 1889 in Ellesmere Port, England, Chedgzoy began his professional career with Everton in 1910, joining the club from amateur side Burnell's Ironworks. He spent sixteen seasons with the Blues, predominantly was a right wing forward. Everton were runners up in the First Division in the 1911–12 season and won the championship 1914–15. In total, Chedgzoy made 300 appearances (279 in the league) for Everton. He scored 36 goals, with 33 coming in league games. Chedgzoy also guested for West Ham United during World War One, making 28 appearances and scoring 14 goals. American Soccer League In 1926, Chedgzoy emigrated to the United States where he signed with New Bedford Whalers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Kennedy (footballer, Born 1899)
Sam Kennedy (1899-?) was a Scottish association football forward who played in Scotland and the American Soccer League. Following spells with Falkirk and Clyde in Scotland, in 1926 Kennedy signed with the Fall River of the American Soccer League, after Fall River center forward Harold Brittan moved to the New Bedford Whalers. In December, he briefly returned to Scotland when his young son became ill. In 1927, Kennedy began the season with Fall River, played one game, then was transferred to J&P Coats J. & P. Coats was an American soccer club founded in 1900 as the team of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island branch of the J. & P. Coats threadmaking company of Paisley, Scotland (following a 1952 merger this firm became part of the Coats Group Coats .... In 1928, he was again transferred during the season, this time to the New Bedford Whalers. Despite the changes in team, he scored twenty-three goals (thirteen with Coats and ten with New Bedford), placing him sixth on the goals li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Doyle
Denis Doyle (born 1900, date of death unknown) was an Irish football wing half who played professionally in Ireland and the United States. He earned one cap with the Irish Free State national football team in 1926. He was born in Dublin. He joined Shamrock Rovers in 1922 and played in that year's FAI Cup final which they lost in a replay. He then moved back to centre-half until he left the club in 1927. That year, he moved to the USA with Bob Fullam where he signed with the Philadelphia Celtic of the American Soccer League. The team played only ten games before failing financially. He then transferred to the Fall River He won three league titles with the 'Marksmen'. He began the 1929-1930 season with the 'Marksmen', playing three games, before transferring to the Pawtucket Rangers. In 1931, he moved to the New York Yankees. He spent his last years in Niagara Falls. He won one cap for the Irish Free State against Italy in Turin on 21 March 1926. He was part of the Rov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Patenaude
Bertrand "Bert" Arthur Patenaude (; November 4, 1909November 4, 1974) was an American soccer player who played as a forward. Although it was formerly disputed, he is officially credited by FIFA as the scorer of the first hat-trick in World Cup history. He is a member of the United States Soccer Hall of Fame. Club career Born in Massachusetts in 1909, Patenaude began playing in the competitive local leagues in his hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1928, he signed his first professional contract with Philadelphia Field Club of the American Soccer League. In his eight games with Philadelphia, he scored six goals. Despite this productivity, he moved to J&P Coats for one league game, then moved again to his hometown Fall River F.C. While playing with the 'Marksmen', Patenaude formed a lethal striking partnership with another local Massachusetts player, Billy Gonsalves (scoring 112 goals in 114 appearances with the Massachusetts club). He remained in Fall River until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James White (Scottish Footballer)
James White (21 August 1899 – August 1983) was a Scottish footballer who spent most of his career playing for Fall River in the American Soccer League. He was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Playing career In 1920, White signed with Albion Rovers of the Scottish League and helped them reach the 1920 Scottish Cup final where they lost to Kilmarnock; his brother Jock was also in the side (two other brothers, Willie and Tom, were also footballers – all four played together for Heart of Midlothian in the Lord Provost's Rent Relief Cup final of 1923 which their side won through two goals from Jock).Hall of Fame , Jock White (2018) Heart of Midlothian FC [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex McNab
Alexander McNab (27 December 1894 – 3 April 1960) was a Scottish-American soccer player and coach. He began his career in Scotland before moving to the United States. In the US, he won six consecutive National Challenge Cups with teams from both the American Soccer League and St. Louis Soccer League. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005. Scotland Greenock Morton McNab began his career with Greenock Morton in 1914, playing nine seasons with the team until his departure for the United States in 1924. On 27 April 1922, Morton won the Scottish Cup, winning in the final against Rangers. In 1924, Morton offered McNab £4 per week. He considered this excessively low, but when he asked for a transfer, the club placed a prohibitively high fee on him to force him to stay in Greenock. When McNab received an offer from the Boston Soccer Club of the American Soccer League to play for £12 per week, McNab immediately left Scotland for the United States. National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike McLeavy
Michael McLeavy (born 22 July 1900) was a Scottish footballer who spent most of his career in the American Soccer League. In 1921, McLeavy joined Falkirk; he moved to Kilmarnock in 1922 but played only two league games, then played for Bo'ness and Vale of Leven before leaving Scotland for the United States in 1923. When McLeavy arrived, he signed with J&P Coats of the American Soccer League. In 1924, he began the season with J&P Coats, but moved to Providence twelve games into the season. In 1925, McLeavy joined the New Bedford Whalers New Bedford Whalers was the name of three American soccer teams based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The first Whalers played in the Southern New England Soccer League between 1914 and 1918. The second Whalers played in the American Soccer Leag ... where he spent most of the rest of his career, aside from six games with the Fall River during the Spring 1931 American Soccer League season. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newark Skeeters
The Newark Skeeters was an American soccer club based in Newark, New Jersey and was a member of the American Soccer League and the Eastern Soccer League. History In December 1924, Tom Adam, former manager of West Hudson A.A., became the manager of the Skeeters. In 1928, the American Soccer League suspended Newark when the team defied the league's boycott of the National Challenge Cup. The Skeeters then joined two other ASL teams, Bethlehem Steel and the New York Giants, in the newly created Eastern Professional Soccer League Eastern or Easterns may refer to: Transportation Airlines *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways *Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 192 .... The club folded upon the merger of the ASL and ESL after the fall 1929 season. Year-by-year References Defunct soccer clubs in New Jersey American Soccer League (1921–1933) teams Eastern Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethlehem Steel F
Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem, and the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. It had a population of people, as of . The city's economy is strongly linked to tourism, especially during the Christmas period, when Christians embark on a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, which is revered as the location of the birth of Jesus. A possible first mention of Bethlehem is in the Amarna correspondence of ancient Egypt, dated to 1350–1330 BCE, although that reading is uncertain. In the Hebrew Bible, the period of the Israelites is described; it identifies Bethlehem as the birthplace of David. In the New Testament, the city is identified as the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth. Under the Roman Empire, the city of Bethlehem was destroyed by Hadrian, but later rebuilt by Constantine the Great, who commissioned the Church of the Nativity in 327 CE. In 529, the Church of the Nativity was heavily damaged by Samaritans involved in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
