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| | West Hudson: A Cradle of American Soccer |
 | | Both were the American branches of huge Scottish companies, the Clark Thread Company of Paisley, Scotland, and Michael Nairn and Company of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, a fact that helped greatly to make Kearny as attractive to immigrants from Scotland as virtually any place in America. |
 | | American college students were very enthusiastic about soccer in the early 1870s, particularly at Princeton, Rutgers, Yale and Columbia, but by the mid-1870s, led by Harvard's team, they had begun to move toward rugby, which they quickly transformed into American football. |
 | | The fight was sharp and brief but the Americans forced the inflated sphere nearer and nearer to the Canadian goal, until at last J. Chapman of the Kearny Rangers drove it between the posts, tying the score. |
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