Fall River Football Club, also referred to as
Fall River Field Club, was the name used by two
United States soccer clubs, based in
Fall River, Massachusetts. Both played in the
American Soccer League during the early 1930s. The name is often used incorrectly to refer to
Fall River Marksmen, another soccer team. Although both these teams shared some common history with the Marksmen, they were separate clubs.
Fall River F.C. I
Between 1924 and 1930 the first Fall River F.C. played in the
American Soccer League as
Providence Clamdiggers and then as
Providence Gold Bugs. However in 1931, after
Sam Mark, owner of the
Fall River Marksmen, relocated his team to
New York and renamed them the
New York Yankees, he made their former home ground,
Mark's Stadium, available to anybody willing to place a team there. A group of Fall River businessmen, led by an ex-Marksmen player
Harold Brittan, then bought
Providence Gold Bugs, moved them into Mark's Stadium and renamed then Fall River F.C. The new club played for just one season,
Spring 1931, eventually finishing fifth. However during their short existence they did win two notable prestige friendlies. On February 22, 1931 they beat
Vélez Sársfield 5-2. Then on May 31 with a team that included
Joe Kennaway,
Bill Paterson and
Tom Florie they beat
Celtic 1-0. Kennaway subsequently signed for Celtic after impressing them with his performance in goal.
By early 1931 the
Great Depression had severely effected the stability of the ASL and...
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