Behind the footage: BSFC plays AIK and a select Swedish Provinces team in 1919
International Tours, Pennsylvania:
Ed Farnsworth looks at the first and third matches of Bethlehem Steel FC’s 1919 tour of Sweden and Denmark.
International Tours, Pennsylvania:
Ed Farnsworth looks at the first and third matches of Bethlehem Steel FC’s 1919 tour of Sweden and Denmark.
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Profiles, USSF:
Elmer Schroeder was elected as the first native-born president of US Soccer in 1932. Two decades later he was murdered.
Ed Farnsworth looks at the opening match of the United States Football Association’s first international tour, which was in Stockholm against a club side, Tigrarna Fotbollkubben.
A friendly between a local cricket club and a touring English cricket club in 1901 helped spur soccer’s resurgence in Philadelphia after the depression that followed the Panic of 1893.
The series on the origins of soccer in Philadelphia continues with a look at football in Philadelphia in the years immediately after the 1863 FA code.
A look at soccer in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.
The series on the origins of soccer in Philadelphia continues with a look at 19th-century football before the 1863 Laws of the Game.
A look at football in colonial and post-independence Philadelphia.
The first installment of a ten-part series on the origins of soccer in Philadelphia.
A complete listing of USWNT games is now available for reference on the SASH site.
AAPF, ALPF, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:
A look at the first professional soccer leagues in the US, the American Association of Professional Football and American League of Professional Football, with new information on the lesser known AAPF.