AAPF, ALPF, ASL, Boston, Brooklyn, Fall River, Massachusetts, Newark, Philadelphia:
Who scored the first goals in the earliest US professional leagues? Brian Bunk looks at the available evidence.
Ed Farnsworth looks at how a reunion of old teammates in Philadelphia led to the formation of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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.
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.
AAPF, AFA, ALPF, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Newark, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:
Following the collapse of the ALPF after only 16 games over two weeks, four former ALPF sides met in seven additional matches, including a series of three games in Fall River for the “championship of America.” Former Boston and Brooklyn ALPF professionals continued in Fall River after that.
College Soccer, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:
The series on the origins of soccer in Philadelphia continues with a look at the development of university- and college-based football in the 1870s.
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.
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.
International Tours, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:
The 1921 All-Scots tour was the first by an international team backed by US Soccer.
