This is the third of three posts on the Inter-Allied Games. The first two in the series can be found here and here. I worked with Christian Hesle (@christianhesle) to identify the members of the Canadian soccer team that competed at the Inter-Allied Games in Paris in 1919. Using newspapers,… Read More ›
A look at soccer in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.
The symposium scheduled to take place at Rutgers University Newark for April 18-19, 2020 has been canceled.
The series on the origins of soccer in Philadelphia continues with a look at 19th-century football before the 1863 Laws of the Game.
Inconsistent and incomplete information regarding the players has made it difficult to identify most of the men who represented the United States at the Inter-Allied Games in 1919.
In view of the evolving coronavirus situation, an announcement will be made by March 20 as to whether the SASH symposium scheduled for April 18-19 at Rutgers University Newark will take place.
The first of a three-part series looking at soccer at the Inter-Allied games, an athletic tournament organized by the U.S. military and the YMCA held in Paris from June 22 – July 6, 1919.
A look at football in colonial and post-independence Philadelphia.
The story of James Currie and Joseph Cunat, two soccer-playing soldiers who served during World War I, concludes.
In the fall of 1922, Leonard H. Raney played on the first-ever varsity soccer team for Kearny High School. That New Jersey town, which would later be dubbed Soccer Town, USA, had long been a soccer hotbed. It was rare for African Americans to play soccer in the 1920s, and while African-American participation in the game still lags today, Raney was a soccer pioneer.
A Q&A with National Soccer Hall of Fame historian Roger Allaway on the process involved in election to the Hall of Fame.
The 1921 All-Scots tour was the first by an international team backed by US Soccer.
The lineage of exceptional American goalkeepers may begin in the 1880s with Dennis Shay.
Bob Robertson was the original voice of the NASL Seattle Sounders.
An interview with Clive Toye, the man who signed Pele to the Cosmos.
New Bedford Whalers entered the second leg of the 1931 ALS championship against New York Giants with an 8-3 deficit to overcome.