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New Year’s Day soccer, 1916

by Ed Farnsworth × on December 31, 2015 at 9:30 am × 0 comments

After drawing for the second time on Christmas Day in 1915, Philadelphia’s Hibernians and Marcus Hook’s Viscose met for the third time in the second round of the US Open Cup on New Year’s Day, 1916.

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Christmas soccer in Philly, 1915

by Ed Farnsworth × on December 24, 2015 at 9:04 am × 0 comments

Inter-city exhibition games, and two US Open Cup playoff, were among the Christmas Day contests involving Philadelphia area teams one hundred years ago in 1915.

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Exit the Fury: History of the Philadelphia Fury, Part Three

by Steve Holroyd × on December 4, 2015 at 11:15 am × 4 comments

Steve Holroyd’s history of the Philadelphia Fury concludes.

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The Fury simmers: History of Philadelphia Fury, Part Two

by Steve Holroyd × on December 2, 2015 at 11:00 am × 6 comments

Steve Holroyd’s look at the history of the Philadelphia Fury continues.

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Enter the Fury: History of the Philadelphia Fury, Part One

by Steve Holroyd × on November 30, 2015 at 12:13 pm × 1 comment

Part one of Steve Holroyd’s look a the history of the Philadelphia Fury.

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Philadelphia and the other first professional soccer league in the U.S.

by Ed Farnsworth × on October 23, 2015 at 11:19 am × 0 comments

Philadelphia was central to the formation of the first two pro soccer leagues in the US, the National League baseball-backed American League of Professional Football, and the American Association of Professional Football, which played its first games before, and outlived, the ALPF.

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1934: USA vs. Mexico and the “little truck”

by Ed Farnsworth × on October 9, 2015 at 10:38 am × 3 comments

This weekend, the US faces Mexico in a one-off game to reach the 2017 Confederations Cup. The first time the US played a one-off playoff game was also against Mexico in 1934 with a World Cup berth at stake.

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Philly and the US Open Cup Final

by Ed Farnsworth × on September 29, 2015 at 11:15 am × 27 comments

As the Union prepare to host their second US Open Cup final, a look at Philadelphia-area teams in the final throughout the history of the country’s oldest national soccer tournament, which has had local winners ten times since 1914.