Fleisher Yarn began as an amateur company

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club of the S.B. & B.W. Fleisher Manufacturing Company in

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. Feisher Yarn became a professional team for the 1924-25 American Soccer League season. The team folded after one year in the league.

History

Around 1919, S.B. & B.W. Fleisher Manufacturing Company started a soccer team that quickly became a national amateur soccer power. They won the Philadelphia Industrial League championship in 1920/21, both the Allied Amateur Cup of Philadelphia and Philadelphia's Telegraph Cup in 1922, a "quadruple" in 1923 winning the Allied Amateur League, the Allied Amateur League Cup, the Allied Amateur Cup, and the

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(the last by defeating the professional

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of the American Soccer League), and the inaugural

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. Fleisher became a professional team and joined the American Soccer League in

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. After one mediocre season the club folded.

Year-by-year

References

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