Fall River Marksmen

Bethlehem Steel were better.

 

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It's difficult to compare Bethlehem Steel and the Fall River Marksmen, because while they played each other many times, their peaks were more than a decade apart. The Bethlehem team was at its best between 1915 and 1919, and was a shadow of its former self during the 1920s. The Marksmen weren't founded until 1922, and their best team probably was in 1930.

 

Hoi. Look at :
www.geocities.com/bethlehem_soccer : 115 items to find and to copy
www.fultonhistory.com : "brooklyn ny daily eagle" + "new york ny evening post" and soccer ( much to copy )
DVD box : history of football with around 30 seconds FRM in action ( 1924 )
www.youtube.com : ftc 1930 with FRM in action ( around 3.09 -- 4.01 )
Looking at the pictures , FRM colors are blue and white.
So , what you have got of pictures maybe for me ?
Thanks and greetings , Jack

 

I'm trying to find the video you posted from youtube, but can't. searched for both ftc 1930 and fall river marksmen. can you just copy and paste the link, i'd like to take a look at it. thanks man

 

Hello.
--- also Amazon got the DVD box : history of football 2001 the beautiful game
--- youtube and ftc 1930 / f meccsek a20-as evekben

 

I have found some interesting pictures here:

www.flickr.com

then enter "fall river marksmen" as search query

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fall+river+marksmen&f=hp

 

Very cool pics! The Fall River logo on the jerseys was surprisingly modern-looking. I will have a write-up on a game that Fall River played against the Indiana Flooring team from New York in a few weeks on my website, www.AmericanLibero.com.

 

I am looking forward to it! I always wanted to set up the Marksmen to my old video game, but never managed to do. Some or other things were missing.

 

I recently obtained this press photo taken during the 1927 National Challenge Cup Final (front and back shown). The participants were Fall River Marksmen (white shirts) and Holley Carburetor (dark shirts). The match was played at the University of Detroit Stadium on 1 May 1927.

Could anyone help me with player identifications?

 

It would be nice, if any can put into context how good were those teams (for people like me who doesn't know much about them)

At least, in local and regional context (esp. if they were tested against foreign clubs)

 

msioux75: Roger Allaway, the person whom you quote above, is a historian and writes blogs for this site about the history of soccer in the USA. I think you can probably get a feel for the quality of the American game from his articles. You might start with this entry about Bethlehem Steel's summer 1919 Scandinavian tour: <https://www.bigsoccer.com/soccer/roger-allaway/2011/05/22/bethlehem-steel-on-tour/>.

Perhaps a Fall River Marksmen expert will turn up here who can rattle off the names of the players in the picture. I, for example, know the likenesses of Liverpool FC players from the 1920s to the extent that I can usually recognize them immediately. I was hoping someone as conversant with the Marksmen could do the same.

 

Maybe, not the accurate thread to post this (if there are any better please move it)

Hakoah All Stars (USA club) touring South America in 1930, visiting Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay with a record: 2W-8D-5L

This team featured some international players from Central European nations (elite nations by then)
Lajos Fischer (Hungary-9 caps)
Laszlo Sternberg (Hun-19)
Pepi Schneider (Austria-11)
Pavel Mahrer (Czechoslovakia-6)
Bela Guttman (Hun-4)
Moritz Häusler (Aus-7)
Sándor Nemes (Hun-3 / Aus-2)
Mürren Carlson (Sweden-20)
http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/2014/08/hakoah-all-stars-in-south-america-1930.html