The rise and fall: Fall River and Pawtucket soccer, 1883-1896
Boston, Fall River, Massachusetts, Pawtucket, Rhode Island:
In the decade after the founding of the Fall River’s East End team, Fall River and Pawtucket rose to be perhaps the preeminent center of soccer in the United States. Then, over the course of three seasons, organized soccer in the cities collapsed. Ed Farnsworth looks at the rise and fall.