Boston Beacons

The Bostone Beacons were a 1967-68 existing for two years American football franchise. With the team of Irish professional team Shamrock Rovers and under the name Boston (Shamrock ) Rovers took it in 1967 participate in the game operation of the single season the United Soccer Association (USA ), 1968, the franchise was under a new name and with its own team founding member of the North American Soccer League ( NASL ). Sporty and financially the franchise had little success; after two most recent places in each league Division of the Boston and high losses the franchise was disbanded at the end of the 1968 season.

1967

When it came in 1966 in North America establishing three competing goals inverse groups establishing a football professional league to Weston Adams, president of the NHL teams Boston Bruins, joined the group to which the United States Football League was starting later; because of the competition drew the U.S. the beginning of the gaming operation at short notice by the winter of 1967 /68 to the spring of 1967. During the remaining time of setting up their own teams seemed impossible, so that the league committed twelve professional teams from Europe and South America for the play-free time in the summer. The Irish team Shamrock Rovers was delegated because of the many ethnic Irish population to Boston, where she participated as Boston Rovers, partly as Boston Shamrock Rovers on game mode. Your home stadium has been the Manning Bowl.

The team was athletic and financially unsuccessful. With only two wins and three draws from twelve games, they were the worst team in the U.S.; also had an average of 4,171 spectators, the Boston home games the bad visited the league.

1968

For the team rebuilt were two young Irish players of Shamrock Rovers, Paddy Mulligan, who later became national champion Cup winner with Chelsea and 50 times Irish national team, as well as David Pugh be recruited; otherwise the team was a complete recomposition. As a goalkeeper, the experienced 38 - year-old former Scottish international goalkeeper Willie Fraser has been committed to another experienced player was the Argentine World Cup qualifiers in 1962 Rubén Héctor Sosa. Also the rest of the squad was well staffed, but the team was unsuccessful. At the end of the regular season Boston was the Atlantic Division, the league undercut fifth and last only by the results of the Detroit Cougars and Dallas Tornado with only nine wins and 121 points.

For the NASL the franchise changed its venue; but also at Fenway Park the average attendance did not increase, but decreased in relation to the United States - 1967 season slightly to 4.004; the record crowd was in any league game, but in a friendly match against FC Santos 18,400. Because of sports, but also financial failure was the franchise, like all resolved to five of the NASL, after the end of the 1968 season.

Known player

• Erik Dyreborg, Danish national team
• Rubén Héctor Sosa, Argentine national team
• Willie Fraser, Scottish goalkeeper
• Paddy Mulligan, Irish international