The Frank Worthington debacle Although much improved, the Fury remained an inconsistent side. Through April, the team was 2-4. However, help was on the way with the arrival of Ball and the acquisition of another goal scorer, Frank Worthington, on loan from Bolton. Worthington finished the 1978-79 season as the… Read More ›
Steve Holroyd’s look at the history of the Philadelphia Fury continues.
Part one of a history of the Philadelphia Fury of the original NASL.
On Ferenc Puskas’s tenure as head coach of the Vancouver Royals in the first year of the original NASL.
Ferenc Puskas played international friendlies in the US for Ferencvaros and Real Madrid.
On the sudden departure of Dettmar Cramer as head coach of the USMNT in 1975.
Over the 1916 Christmas holiday, Bethlehem Steel FC, holders of the National Challenge Cup and the American Cup, traveled to St. Louis for two games to decide the unofficial title of champion of the United States.
Roger Allaway on the shaky beginnings of professional league soccer in the US.
American football is a Thanksgiving tradition, but so is soccer. In fact, Thanksgiving Soccer is nearly as old as the holiday itself. A day of national thanksgiving goes back to the colonial period, but it took President Abraham Lincoln to institute it as a late-November holiday. Modern soccer, codified… Read More ›
An examination of the Columbia-Rutgers game played on Nov. 2, 1872 shows it was played under a form of association football rules, not American gridiron rules.
