Philly Soccer 100: Boys’ Club clinches American League title
One hundred years ago in Philadelphia soccer, Kensington Boys’ Club clinched the American League title.
One hundred years ago in Philadelphia soccer, Kensington Boys’ Club clinched the American League title.
100 years ago this week, the best of Philadelphia’s American League faced the best of the professional Pennsylvania League in an exhibition game. Meanwhile, Bethlehem continued its domination of the Allied American league.
The US played its first full international in Sweden during the the First World War. Philadelphia-area players were an important part of that team.
While Philadelphia soccer fans watched a soccer double header at the Phillies Ball Park on Christmas Day in 1916, Bethlehem Steel FC, holders of the National Challenge Cup and the American Cup, had traveled to St. Louis for two games to decide the unofficial title of champion of the United States.
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