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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The Archives Room: Hakoah left its mark on America
Roger Allaway on the legacy of the US tours by Austria’s Hakoah team in the 1920s.
Sailor lads, jolly tars, and rovers of the briny deep: International ship-crew soccer matches in the US, 1890-1905, part 1
Ed Farnsworth’s review of matches between US clubs and British ship crew teams between 1890 and 1905 begins with a look at matches played in New York and Northern New Jersey.
Overview: The American Soccer League, 1921-1934
Dan Creel recounts each ASL season between 1921 and 1934
Historical Soccer Footage from the Fox Movietone News Collection at University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC)
The videos below are from the Fox Movietone News Collection at the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC). The videos consist of outtakes from newsreels shown in movie theaters around the US. The footage is from the 1920s and includes scenes from an international friendly, a US […]
Reading your own obituary: Samuel Bustard, the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and the evolution of New York Metro Area soccer
Kurt Rausch’s examination of the career of Samuel Bustard — who was widely, and wrongly, reported dead during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic — illuminates soccer in the New York Metro Area in the 1910s and 1920s.
Stars and Stripes Soccer on the Silver Screen before 1930
A look at the growing availability of pre-1930s motion picture footage of American soccer.
Philadelphia German Americans win the 1936 US Open Cup
On May 3, 1936, Philadelphia German Americans became the first amateur team, and the first team from the city of Philadelphia, to win the US Open Cup.
Alexander Wood
A defender who played for the United States in the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. Wood, who was born in Scotland and emigrated to the United States as a teenager in 1921, played four full internationals for the United States, three at the 1930 World Cup and one during the […]
Alex Weir
A defender who played in the American Soccer League from 1936 to 1949. Weir, who emigrated from Scotland in 1930 at the age of 19, played for St. Mary’s Celtic of Brooklyn, the New York Americans, the Brooklyn Wanderers and Brookhattan Galicia during his ASL career. He was captain of […]
Archie Stark
The leading first-division goalscorer ever produced by the United States, with 260 goals in 10 American Soccer League seasons from 1921 to 1931. Stark, who emigrated to the United States from Scotland as a teenager in 1912, gained his greatest fame in the 1920s with Bethlehem Steel of the original […]
James “Jimmy” McGuire
A former American Soccer League star who went on to serve two widely separated terms as president of the United States Soccer Football Association. McGuire, who was born and raised in Scotland, began playing for Brooklyn Wanderers of the original American Soccer League in 1929. After the original ASL folded […]
Peter “Pete” Renzulli
A goalkeeper who played for a string of American Soccer League clubs in the 1920s and won three U.S. Open Cup titles. Renzulli, who ranked on a par with Jimmy Douglas as the top American goalkeepers of their era, began playing at the semipro level in 1911 and gradually rose […]
John “Johnny” Nelson
The number-two goalscorer behind Archie Stark in the original American Soccer League, with 223 goals in his eight-year ASL career. The largest part of that time was with the Brooklyn Wanderers, whom he joined during the 1923-24 season and played for until being traded late in the 1927-28 season. During […]
George Moorhouse
A defender and midfielder who was a star of American Soccer League clubs and the U.S. national team through much of the 1920s and ’30s. Moorhouse played for the United States in both the 1930 and 1934 World Cups, and was captain of the U.S. team in its lone game […]
John “Jack” McGuire
A forward who played five seasons in the original American Soccer League of the 1920s, and won two U.S. Open Cup titles. McGuire, who was born in Scotland, got his Open Cup victories with Robins Dry Dock of Brooklyn, his first American team, in 1921 and Paterson FC in 1923. […]
Dick, Kerr Ladies come to Philadelphia, 1922
Women’s soccer has come a long way in the US. In 1922, it came all the way from England to Philadelphia.
William Fryer
A midfielder who was one of the stars of the Fall River Marksmen’s powerful teams of the 1920s. Fryer, who emigrated from England in 1921, played for Fall River for only four of his 10 ASL seasons, from 1924 to 1927, but he won three ASL titles and two U.S. […]
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