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Index
Preface: Worthy Diversions
A Note on Terminology
Acknowledgments
"Here They Come!" Pilgrims, Corinthians, and the "Foreign Game" as Invader
2 Foreign Bodies and Freezing Fans: The Births of the USFA and the National Challenge Cup
3 Bullets: Thomas William Cahill, 1863-1951
4 Mild Bill: Bill Jeffrey, Penn State, and College Soccer between the Wars
5 Dash, Desperation, and Deviltry: St. Louis and the "American Style"
6 California Gold: Remembering the Clippers
7 Shot Out in Jersey: NASL 1979-The Beginning of the End
Index
A photo gallery begins on page
In America, though, not even the presence of a top-class striker could overshadow that of a baronet.
When play moved the next day to a baseball park-the home of the White Sox-it was with dramatically d
Claims have been made that the Pilgrims met with President Roosevelt during their tour, and even tha
For a recently organized team from Newark-beaten 7-1-the agony proved almost as excruciating; the ho
private boxes and hand-carved columns, one can only wonder; that the match there, a 9-0 drubbing of
The Corinthians made a second North American tour in 1911 and returned again in 1924.*
had taken to calling a "Cup tie competition."*
Though it may have had loftier pretensions, the AAFA's stated aim was national governance of amateur
The USFA wasted little time in devising a cup competition of its own. Though at the 1913 national co
Another notable absentee was Fall River, a city that would give the USFA no end of trouble in the ye
Over the next two years, the number of Challenge Cup entries would more than double, and close to 10
For better and for worse, the cup today looks remarkably different from the way it did in 1913. Matc
By the time James Scholefield succeeded him as USFA secretary in 1921, Cahill had been associated wi
Mr. Cahill, as the representative of the Americans, was picked out as the recipient of a rather stre
The American Soccer League represented a genuine breakthrough for the game in the United States.*
The influence of the man some had come to regard as the "father of American soccer" was nearing its
The new president had previously occupied the position from 1917 to 1919: Peter Peel of Chicago, lon
It was a premature obituary-and the requital was hardly surprising. One paper wrote how "various foe
Revenge? By himself, Cahill could not have overturned the will of the professionals, but it's unlike
Cahill denied orchestrating the pullout and doubtless would have abhorred the thought of the associa
Few could imagine how much further the game would fall. Sixty-six when Bethlehem disbanded, Cahill h
Some colleges did find coaches who understood the game. Unfailingly, they were foreign-and in the ea
But Bill Jeffrey's name has worn much better than Stewart's. Anyone the slightest bit familiar with
Though Leonard returned for a second season, he was troubled by his fledgling lacrosse program, whic
Admittedly, the Great Depression was casting a long shadow over college athletics. That season, Stat
No one in State's party was hurt, but there was little time for reflection; within the week, the Lio
In his varsity career-which consisted of just twenty-one matches- McEwan scored forty-six times, inc
State made the ISFA honor list every year from 1936 to 1940, but in 1941, on a gray November Saturda
But the team at State College was still the one everyone wanted to beat-since the ISFA's formation,
The "soccer bowl" played on New Year's Day of 1950 was effectively the first championship game the c
Had the college game arrived? Another soccer bowl took place the following season, but it was contes
The opportunity for such a showdown never really materialized. Once the Pilgrims and Corinthians had
in total-to South Side Park on Easter Sunday.*
one, blaming lavish hospitality and a procession of sightseeing and social engagements for their lac
touring True Blues of Paterson, New Jersey.*
It was a fertile time for the game in the city. On an agreeable Sunday in 1916, a St. Louis League p
How near was that day? Not everyone had been swept away by the fervor of the times; one Post-Dispatc
Soon it would prompt Tom Cahill into making his infamous claim that the best American team could giv
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