sentences:  In order to reduce the prominence of the ASL, USFA organized a rival league, the Eastern Soccer League, in October 1928.Bethlehem Steel, in defiance of the ASL, had elected to enter the National Challenge Cup and was suspended by the league seven games into the 1928–1929 season, leading Bethlehem to join the ESL.Stark, and Bethlehem Steel, would remain in the ESL for two seasons before returning to the ASL for the team’s final season.