Fall River Rovers played in a jersey that displayed a shirt sponsor in 1887.
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The rise and fall: Fall River and Pawtucket soccer, 1883-1896
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.
Tartan Threads Woven in US Soccer History: A Patchwork Template for Further Study
David Kilpatrick on the Scottish influence on soccer in the US.
Dennis Shay: Patriarch of American Goalkeepers
The lineage of exceptional American goalkeepers may begin in the 1880s with Dennis Shay.








































