Dave McEachren and Tec White scored twice as the Marksmen took a 7-0 win over Holley Carburetors for 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 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. [Read more…] about May 1, 1927 – Fall River Marksmen win U.S. Open Cup – “Red fire was burned in large quantities”