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.
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Behind the discovery of the earliest known footage of the United States Men’s National Team
Brian Bunk on the discovery by SASH of the earliest known footage of the USMNT in action, filmed during the team’s first-ever overseas tour in 1916 to Scandinavia.
SASH uncovers earliest known footage of the U.S. Men’s National Team
The footage is from the 1-1 draw at Stockholm Olympic Stadium with Stockholm Tigrarna on August 15, 1916, the first match of the first-ever overseas tour by the US Men’s National Team.
SASH Session Book Talk review: Beau Dure discusses his 2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer
A review of the SASH Session with Beau Dure, who discusses his new book, 2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer. Includes video.
SASH Virtual Session Book Talk: Beau Dure discusses his 2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer
Join us as we host a discussion with Beau Dure on his recently published book.
SASH Session review: The Scotch Professor Network
A review of the “Scotch Professors” SASH Session on July 3. Includes video.
SASH Virtual Session on July 3: The Scotch Professors
On Friday, June 3 at 2 PM EST, SASH will be hosting a Zoom session on the influence of Scottish soccer in the development of the world’s game.
Fifty Years On: Teska and Schellscheidt on the 1970 U.S. Open Cup
Heinz Teska and Manny Schellscheidt reflect on Elizabeth SC’s run through the US Open Cup in 1970. Includes a video interview.
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.
SASH Symposium, Session 2
Video of SASH’s second virtual symposium now available.
SASH’s Second Virtual Symposium: “Domestic Leagues and International Stories”
SASH’s second virtual symposium will take place on Friday, June 5, 2020, at 1:00 PM EST
Philly’s first international club friendly
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.
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.
Rowlands stood tall, always will
A tribute to John Rowlands, an original Seattle Sounders, who passed away from the Coronavirus in April.
2020 SASH History Symposium Goes Virtual
A report on the first SASH virtual symposium. Includes video.
#docuhistory: Soccertown, USA
Join the online watch party and Twitter discussion of the award-winning documentary Soccertown, USA on Thursday, May 7, 2020, co-moderated by SASH president Tom McCabe and Matt Busch.
What did referee Dattilo really say to Colombo in Belo Horizonte?
How a regional dialect may have played a part in a famous incident during the USMNT’s historic victory over England in the 1950 World Cup.
SASH Virtual Symposium, 2020 UPDATED WITH ACCESS INFO
SASH has organized a new symposium that will take place over two sessions vis Zoom. The first session, “The East Coast’s Soccer’s Roots from the Gilded Age to the ASL,”will take place Friday, May 1. “Domestic Leagues & International Stories from the Progressive Era to Present,” will take place Friday, June 5.
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