When a goal is not a goal
An examination of the Columbia-Rutgers game played on Nov. 2, 1872 shows it was played under a form of association football rules, not American gridiron rules.
Archive for November, 2015
Bill Cox and the ISL showed the way
The International Soccer League was an important step that helped to pave the way toward the start of the original NASL and thus the American soccer scene of today.
Promotion/Relegation: Been there, done that
The Northwest Collegiate Soccer Conference used promotion/relegation for one season in the early 1990s: “[I]t was all very pragmatic. And when it no longer was necessary, it went away.”
The record-setting Archie Stark
Billy Gonsalves is considered by many to be the best US player before the Second World War but Archie Stark remains the greatest goalscorer the US has ever produced.