The United States’ 2-0 upset of Mexico in the semifinals of the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup seems to have been largely forgotten.
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Soccer History USA now available on SASH podcasting platform
The Soccer History USA podcast series is now available on SASH’s podcasting platform.
The American Football Association
The American Football Association was only the second “national” football association to be formed outside the British Isles, following one in Canada.
The Bill Graham Guides Collection is now available!
In making the Graham Guides freely available, SASH hopes to spark scholarship in a vital period of US soccer history.
SASH Sessions now available as podcasts
SASH Sessions are now available in podcast format from all major podcast distributors including Apple, Google, Spotify, and Amazon.
The battle of ’99
The Quarterfinal match against Germany may have been the best match on the USWNT’s path to the championship at the 1999 Women’s World Cup.
Is this the American style?
It is often said that the United States doesn’t have a distinct national style of playing soccer.
The brief Dettmar Cramer
On the sudden departure of Dettmar Cramer as head coach of the USMNT in 1975.
The accidental Gerry Baker
Baker holds the title of the first European first-division player ever to play for the United States men’s national team.
The Cosmos’ takeoff in 1977
Roger Allaway looks at how the New York Cosmos became “The Cosmos!” in 1977.
SASH Session Tuesday, August 8 at 8 PM ET: Live from the Women’s World Cup with Jen Cooper and Declan Abernathy Updated with Video
Jen Cooper and Declan Abernathy will join us from Australia to talk about the Women’s World Cup.
Got mud?
Three replays and lots of mud in the 1914 American Cup quarterfinal between Bethlehem Steel and West Hudson.
Graham Guide Digitization Project fundraiser exceeds goal in less than 48 hours!
SASH fundraiser will remain open until Monday, July 31, at noon ET after reaching — and exceeding — it’s target in less than 48 hours.
“Graham Guides” digitization project fundraiser launched
SASH is launching the campaign to raise $1,600 to digitally scan the complete run of what are colloquially referred to as the Bill Graham Guides“.
Ticos weren’t as high a hurdle in ’84
Roger Allaway looks at when the USMNT defeated Costa Rica 3-0 at the 1984 Olympics in front of a crowd of 78,265 at Stanford Stadium.
Bethlehem Steel on tour
Overseas tours by American soccer teams have become, while not commonplace, at least not as unusual as they once were. The grand-daddy of them all was Bethlehem Steel’s tour of Sweden and Denmark in 1919.
Shots heard a few blocks away
Paul Caligiuri’s biggest goal wasn’t the first game winner that he’d scored against Trinidad and Maurice. He’d also had one four years earlier, on May 19, 1985, Roger Allaway explains.
D-Day at the Polo Grounds
Nearly every professional sports event in the United States was canceled or postponed on June 6, 1944. Roger Allaway looks at one of the few that wasn’t, a benefit soccer tournament at the Polo Grounds featuring ASL teams.
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