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| | NEW ENGLAND PRO SOCCER HISTORY |
 | | This gives the Marksmen the distinction of having been the first US team to win the "double" (top league championship and top cup in both 1924 and 1930), some 73 years before DC United claimed that they had been the first in 1997. |
 | | Perhaps the most successful of all were the Marksmen, who had been founded by Sam Mark, a local businessmen who had bought the Fall River United Club, and built them a new stadium just over the state line in Tiverton, RI, so they could avoid a Massachusetts Blue Law prohibiting them from playing Sunday games. |
 | | Bill McPherson was a mainstay of the Fall River Marksmen for nearly their entire existence, playing 366 games between 1922 and 1931, His trophies include 5 ASL championships, and 7 US Open Cup titles, five with the Marksmen, and two more with Stix, Baer and Fuller in 1933 and 1934. |
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