A look at soccer in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.
Tag: National Association Football League
Third Lanark/All-Scots in Philly, 1921
In 1921, the first-ever US tour by a professional international side included games in Bethlehem and Philadelphia.
A champion’s medal comes home
Last Friday, a 103-year-old championship medal won by a Scottish goalkeeper in Philadelphia returned to the city to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Soccer Hall of Fame. Here’s the story of the goalkeeper who won that medal and how it came back from Scotland to Philly.
Prelude to the US at the first World Cup
Our series on the history of the US at the World Cup begins with how the first World Cup came to be in 1930 and a look at the US national team’s international play before then.
Why Bethlehem Steel FC?
When the Union take to the pitch at PPL Park on Saturday they will be continuing their own chapter in the long history of soccer in the Philadelphia area that stretches back to Bethlehem Steel FC and beyond.
Abolish the penalty kick
100 years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer led the call in American soccer circles to eliminate the penalty kick.