The videos below are from the Fox Movietone News Collection at the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC). The videos consist of outtakes from newsreels shown in movie theaters around the US. The footage is from the 1920s and includes scenes from an international friendly, a US Open Cup final, as well as American Soccer League and Eastern Soccer League play. (For more information on the clips, see Brian D. Bunk’s “Stars and Stripes Soccer on the Silver Screen before 1930.”)
Founded in 1915, the Fox Film Corporation produced silent newsreels under the Fox News moniker beginning in 1919. In 1928, Fox Film Corporation began producing Movietone News newsreels with soundtracks.
The video and footage below is owned and copyrighted by the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections and is presented here with the permission of the MIRC. The video and footage may not be copied, downloaded, altered, or reused without the express written permission of the MIRC.
March 20, 1924: St. Louis Vesper Buick 2-4 Fall River Marksmen (1924 US Open Cup final at High School Field in St. Louis)
Source page at University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections
November 8, 1925: USA 6-1 Canada (International friendly at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn)
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December 18, 1927: New York Nationals 2-2 Brooklyn Wanderers (American Soccer League match at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn)
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January 16, 1928: Brooklyn Wanderers 4-0 Trenton (US Open Cup First Round at Hawthorne Field in Brooklyn)
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December 2, 1928: New York Giants 3-0 Newark Skeeters / Hakoah 4-2 Philadelphia Centennials (Eastern Soccer League doubleheader at Starlight Park in New York)
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