April 18, 1921 – Abbot Worsteds manager Kelly one-year suspension for using ineligible player v Hendee Indians

Jimmy Kelly drew the suspension after using Greensdale in a State Cup semifinal game. The State Cup committee also voted to withhold the runner-up cup and medal, Fore River winning the title. The Hendee Indians were accused of using an ineligible player in a previous game, manager James Shepard suspended for a year.

Hendee took a 5-1 win over the Abbots (Milne scored 4 goals) at the Fore River Shipyard field in Quincy Jan. 1 and the teams played to 2-2 draws Dec. 26 in Holyoke and in a semifinal replay March 26 at the Fore River Shipyard field in Quincy.

The Hendee team seems to have been short-lived.

On June 5, 1920, the Hendee Manufacturing Co. announced it would compete in the North Massachusetts and New Hampshire State Cup competition, playing at Pratt Field in Springfield. Many of the Hendee players had performed for Clan Murray. Some of the team members included Alf Gray, D. Gray and goalkeeper W. Gray, who all went on to play for the Holyoke Falcos in the inaugural season of the American Soccer League in 1921. George Hendee left the company in 1916 and Hendee (which became Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Co.) sold its shares to the Harley Company on Dec. 30, 1921.

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