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The Archives Room: Guides to American soccer’s past

The Archives Room: Guides to American soccer’s past

May 17, 2023

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Roger Allaway looks at the importance of the Spalding Guides and Graham Guides to American soccer historians.

Paterson News, Aug. 22, 1966.

The Archives Room: Memorable for the wrong reason

May 3, 2023

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Roger Allaway looks at how crowd trouble marred the meeting between Pelé’s Santos and Eusebio’s Benfica at Randall’s Island in New York in August, 1966.

H Edgar Lewis. Spalding's Official "Soccer" Football Guide, 1916-17.

The Archives Room: The unusual Edgar Lewis

April 19, 2023

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Roger Allaway on the driving force behind the powerhouse Bethlehem Steel team of 100 years ago, a man who was an oddity in American soccer.

Italy's Paolo Rossi (L) and  Peru's Jaime Duarte battle in the FIFA All Star Game. The Record, August 8, 1982.

The Archives Room: A starry night in New Jersey

April 5, 2023

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Archives Room, NASL I:

Roger Allaway looks at a game that could have been a magnificent event for American soccer but instead was a rather bittersweet occasion.

Liverpool with ASL All-Stars in 1946. Photo courtesy of http://lfctour2012.liverpoolfc.com/news/how-usa-helped-us-win-the-league

The Archives Room: Liverpool chows down

February 15, 2023

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Touring foreign soccer teams have come to the United States for a lot of different reasons over the years, most of them tied in one way or another to money. In 1946, Liverpool came to the United States for lunch.

The Archives Room: The forgotten Thomas W. Cahill

The Archives Room: The forgotten Thomas W. Cahill

February 1, 2023

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A man who dominated the sport in the United States 100 years ago is nearly unknown today.

Photo courtesy of http://fynasl.tumblr.com/image/14172508923

The Archives Room: The Cosmos-Whitecaps classic of 1979

January 18, 2023

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Roger Allaway on the second leg of the 1979 championship semifinal between New York Cosmos and Vancouver Whitecaps, considered by many to be the best game in the history of the original NASL.

The Archives Room: Stix by any other name…

The Archives Room: Stix by any other name…

January 4, 2023

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Roger Allaway looks at what’s behind the name of some of the most storied teams in US soccer history.

The Archives Room: The “American Menace”

The Archives Room: The “American Menace”

December 21, 2022

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Roger Allaway looks back to when European club soccer felt threatened by the ASL.

The Archives Room: Nigeria’s American dramatics

The Archives Room: Nigeria’s American dramatics

December 7, 2022

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Roger Allaway looks at why the men’s soccer tournament at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta deserves to be a lot better remembered than it is.

The Archives Room: The record-setting Archie Stark

The Archives Room: The record-setting Archie Stark

November 16, 2022

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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.

The Archives Room: Teenage stars are an old story

The Archives Room: Teenage stars are an old story

November 2, 2022

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Roger Allaway looks back at the long tradition of teenage players breaking into U.S. league and national team ranks.

The Archives Room: That second leg is a killer

The Archives Room: That second leg is a killer

October 19, 2022

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Roger looks back to the 1931 ASL championship to show how second-leg games can result in surprises.