Aug. 31, 1947 – Ponta Delgada SC 6:1 Chicago Sparta, U.S. Open Cup final first leg, N. Tiverton, R.I. (Att.: 2,400)

Ponta Delgada SC (Fall River, Mass.) became first team to win U.S. Open Cup & U.S. Amateur Cup double, and also was selected to represent the U.S. in the North American Football Championship, a forerunner of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Pontas virtually clinched the U.S. Open Cup with a 6-1 victory over Chicago Sparta in the opening leg.

Goals: Ed Souza 2, Travis, J. Souza, Valentine, Ferreira; Francis Quinn.

Aug. 31, 1929 – Boston Wonder Workers 3:0 Providence Clam Diggers at Tech Field, Brookline

Aug. 31, 1930 – Ferencvaros 6:2 Fall River SC, Budapest (Att.: 6,000)

Fall River concluded a tour with 2W-3L-1D record, protesting against biased refereeing and claiming it was not paid by Ferencvaros, the club that organized the tour.

Jeremiah Best and Alex McNab are listed as Fall River scorers in Colin Jose’s American Soccer League 1921-1931/The Golden Years of American Soccer; other sources list Archie Stark and McNab as scorers. Jozsef Takacs (Takacs II) had a hat trick and Mihaly Tancos, Geza Toldi and Jozsef Turay converted for Ferencvaros.

Tour organizers complained Fall River had not sent its full team. Only six players traveled from the Fall River team that had won the ASL (19W-1L-7D, 44 points) and the Lewis Cup, and had taken the first leg on the way to capturing the Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup). Leading scorers Billy Gonsalves and Bert Patenaude (22 goals each) were participating in a post-World Cup tour with the U.S. national team in South America, and failed to join Fall River in Europe.

Aug. 31, 2007 – Revolution sign Sainey Nyassi

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