The origins of soccer in Philadelphia, part 10: It’s only just begun
Our series on the origins of soccer in Philadelphia concludes.
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The origins of soccer in Philadelphia, part 6: The first league
Our series continues with the start of Philadelphia’s first organized soccer league, the Pennsylvania Football Union, in 1889.
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Philly Soccer 100: Play resumes after a month of winter postponements
After yet another weekend of games is cancelled because of winter weather one hundred years ago, play finally returns to Philadelphia soccer.
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Philly Soccer 100: Thanksgiving soccer, 1913
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.
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Philly Soccer 100: Open Cup draw, Hibs lose grounds, local league results
One hundred years ago in Philadelphia soccer history, the fixtures for five area teams in the US Open Cup were announced, and Hibernian learned they were losing their home field. Also, local league results.
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Philly soccer 100: League play, Challenge Cup, and the death of a young goalkeeper
The Philadelphia soccer scene, one hundred years ago this week: League play, Philadelphia Challenge Cup, and the untimely death of a promising young goalkeeper.
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New Year’s Day soccer in Philadelphia, 1913
Weather had wreaked havoc on the city’s Christmas soccer schedule in 1912. Would it still be a factor in the lead up to the New Year’s Day games?
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Corinthians in Philly
Stops in Philadelphia during the North American tours of English amateur club Corinthian FC in 1906, 1911, and 1924 were perhaps less noteworthy for what happened on the pitch than as windows into key movements in early American and Philadelphia soccer history.
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Philly’s first international
A look at the connection between cricket and the first international friendly played in Philadelphia.
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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.
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