May 1, 1915 – Tommy Fleming converts penalty kick, Bethlehem Steel wins National Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup)

Tommy Fleming, a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, goes on to play for J&P Coats, Fall River Marksmen, Boston SC and other New England teams, and coach at Quincy (Mass.) High School. Fleming (b. 1890) left Scotland as a teenager, starting his U.S. playing career with Fore River FC in 1907.

Bethlehem Steel 3:1 Brooklyn Celtic, U.S. Open Cup final at Taylor Field, Bethlehem, Pa. (Att.: 7,000)

Goals: James Ford 20’, Bob Millar 37’, Fleming (PK) 75’; John McQueen

May 1, 1927 – Holley Carburetor FC 0:7 Fall River Marksmen, National Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup) final at University of Detroit (Att. 10,000)

Dave McEachren and Tec White scored twice as the Marksmen won their second National Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup) title “before a 10,000 crowd, including a special trainload from Fall River, led by Mayor W. Harry Monks,” according to The Boston Globe. Trailing, 3-0, the Detroit team had a chance to cut the deficit, but Dutch international Gerrit Visser had a late first-half penalty kick saved by Blair.

On the same day, the New York Giants and Vienna Hakoah played to a 2-2 draw before a 40,000 crowd at the Polo Grounds, and reigning Olympic champion Uruguay took a 3-0 win over an Ohio All-Star team in Cleveland.

The next day: “The members of the Fall River soccer club were welcomed like heroes upon their arrival from Detroit … by thousands of fans at the Fall River station when they arrived from Boston. The champions were applauded and cheered and then took their places in motor cars for a parade through the business section of the city. … Thousands of citizens lined the sidewalks along the downtown streets, while red fire was burned in large quantities.”

Holley Carburetors later made its name in sports – appropriately – in NASCAR and NHRA competitions.

May 1, 1938 – Ponta Delgada 2:1 Pittsburgh Heidelberg SC, U.S. Amateur Cup final at Bigberry Stadium (Att.: 4,379)

May 1, 1974 – Boston Astros sign Steve Hayes, 16, junior at Westford Academy /Billerica United

May 1, 1996 – Revolution sign Aidan Heaney on transfer from Carolina Dynamo

May 1, 1999 – Publication date of Joe McGinnis’ (Williamstown, Mass.) “Miracle of Castel di Sangro” (Little, Brown)

May 1, 2004 – Revolution acquire Avery John on free transfer from Longford Town

May 1, 2016 – Boston City FC 1:3 New York Cosmos B, BCFC inaugural NPSL game at Brother Gilbert Field, Malden, Mass. (Att.: 927)

Goals: Yaw Addow 33^’ ; OG 64’, 75’, Gonzalo Rodriguez 85^’.

NEW ENGLAND SOCCER HISTORY