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 Bill
played
soccer with junior teams in Fall River, Massachusetts from
1916 to 1918 in public parks, before retiring at the age of 18
to turn his attention to civic and fraternal affairs.
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Personal Information |
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Class of 1967 |
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Born:
1904
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Fall River, MA |
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In
1945 returned to the soccer fold and was elected vice president and
treasurer of the Fall River District Soccer League. In
1954-55 the league was disbanded and reorganized as the
Inter-State Soccer League with Morrissette serving as its
secretary-treasurer and public relations director. When the Inter-State League ran into trouble he was
urged to organize a league made up from the top teams in the
Boston and District League. With the help of
Sam T.N. Foulds, of the Northern
Massachusetts and New Hampshire Association, the New England
Soccer League was formed to include teams from the Greater
Boston area and the Fall River-New Bedford - Rhode Island area
to begin play in the 1962-63 season. Bill served the league as its secretary-treasurer and
public relations director. He was also secretary of the Southern New England
Soccer Football Association from 1949, the Association's
delegate to the USSFA and National Cups Commissioner for all
three cups. He
also wrote for numerous soccer publications and the Fall River
News-Herald.
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