In honor of Thanksgiving, we take a look at the football played by Native Americans when English colonists first began to arrive with a focus on the game played by the original inhabitants of the Delaware Valley, the Lenni Lenape.
History
Flashback: Philly in the 1973 NASL playoffs
As the second-year Philadelphia Union prepare for their first MLS playoff appearance, we take a look back at how the Philadelphia Atoms fared in the 1973 NASL playoffs in their inaugural year.
What is in a number
Jurgen Klinsman has returned to using the numbers 1 through 11 for his starting lineups. In doing so, he not only returns to an soccer tradition but is creating a new competitive spirit among his players.
Philly and the international friendly, part 2
Our two-part series on Philly and the international friendly concludes with friendlies after the Second World War.
Philly and the international friendly, part 1
Ahead of the Union’s friendlies with Everton and Real Madrid, the first of a two part series looking at international friendlies in Philadelphia. Part one looks at friendlies up to the Second World War.
Bethlehem Steel FC
Bethlehem Steel FC were the most successful American soccer team of the first half of the Twentieth Century, rising quickly from an informal local side to professional national powerhouse in less than twenty years.