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New Year’s Day soccer in Philly, 1915

by × on December 31, 2014 at 11:14 am × 1 comment

There were many noteworthy games over the New Year’s Day holiday one hundred years ago in Philadelphia.

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Philly Soccer 100: Philly takes on St. Louis champion, Boys Club tops Bethlehem

by × on March 27, 2013 at 10:55 am × 1 comment

100 years ago in Philly soccer history, Hibernian and Tacony hosted St, Louis champion Innisfails. Boys Club topped Bethlehem in the first game of the Amateur Championship of Pennsylvania series, and more.

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Philly Soccer 100: Philly’s Hibs top Newark’s Scots, Amateur Cup second round

by × on February 25, 2013 at 10:50 am × 1 comment

Philadelphia Hibernians thumped Newark’s Scottish Americans 5-1 and the second round of city’s Allied American Amateur Cup tournament were the highlights of a rainy weekend of Philadelphia soccer 100 years ago this week.

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Abolish the penalty kick

by × on January 10, 2013 at 11:00 am × 4 comments

100 years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer led the call in American soccer circles to eliminate the penalty kick.

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The “champions of the West” come to Philly

by × on February 23, 2012 at 11:35 am × 4 comments

Tacony FC’s trip to St. Louis in December of 1911 to decide the “championship of America” had ended in disappointment. They would have a chance for revenge in March of 1912 when the St. Leos team of St. Louis embarked on a tour against leading East Coast teams.