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.
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Intercity, interleague, Philadelphia Challenge Cup, and league games were all on the holiday soccer schedule 100 years ago.
Continuing a tradition that stretched back to at least 1889, the Philadelphia soccer scene came together for a massive slate of 26 games on Thanksgiving Day in 1913.
Summer friendlies, new associations, new rules: while there was no league play in the summer of 1913, plenty was happening in the Philadelphia soccer scene.
In 1913, seven area teams entered the inaugural National Challenge Cup tournament, known today as the US Open Cup.