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Dec. 8, 1906 – Harvard 1:2 Haverford, Intercollegiate Championship in Association Football, Soldiers Field

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Blake scored twice for Haverford and Reggio countered for Harvard in a battle of unbeatens for the intercollegiate soccer title. “Two 25-minute halves were played, with no time out between them on account of the cold weather.”

Yale 1:4 Springfield YMCA Training School (Att.: 100)

Yale home-opener on “the coldest day of the winter in New Haven …”

Dec. 8, 1917 – Fall River Rovers 4:3 Bridgeport, National Cup match

Rovers convert two penalty kicks.

Dec. 8, 1923 – St. George’s 2×1 Boston Blues, Commonwealth Armory

“Indoor soccer opened with a bang.”

Roxbury v Holyoke Falcos, National Cup (U.S. Open Cup) third round replay, Walpole St. Grounds

“Walpole St. Grounds, where many great soccer games were played many years ago …”

Dec. 8, 1935 – Boston Celtics 2:2 Lusitania Recreation, Boston & District League game, Lincoln Park (Att.: 2,000)

Celtics (7W-2L-1D, 15 points) tied with Quincy Point Boys Club (6-0-3, 15 points) for first place.

Quincy Point Boys Club 1:0 Dorchester SC, Fore River Field

            CMC Rovers (Chicopee, Mass.) 2:2 Boston FC, National Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup) second round match

            Portuguese SC 4:0 Warren SC, USOC, East Providence

            Ponta Delgada 3:3 [aet] Aldens, USOC, Bigberry Stadium

            Gjoa (Brooklyn) 4:0 Hartford, USOC

            Santo Christo SC 3:1 Trojan AC (New Bedford), U.S. Amateur Cup, Sargent Field (Att.: 400)

            Andover FC 2:1 Bird & Son, Northern Massachusetts & New Hampshire Cup

Dec. 8, 1968 – Boston Astros 0:2 New York Internationals, Chelsea Stadium

Goals: Millar 2.

Andrew M. Nixon, 73, former Shawsheen Indians and General Electric player, dies in Lynn (Mass.) Hospital. Nixon played for Ayr United and won the 1925 U.S. Open Cup with Shawsheen

Dec. 8, 2014 – Revolution decline option on Shalrie Joseph; acquire Joe Nasco from Colorado in exchange for Geoffrey Castillion and Dimitry Imbongo

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