EP 4: The discovery of the earliest known footage of the USMNT (September 2020)

In the summer of 2020, SASH members discovered the earliest known footage of the US Men's National Team, taken during the team's 1916 tour of Sweden and Denmark, in the Swedish Film Institute archive.

Tom McCabe hosts a discussion with University of Massachusetts professor and SASH member Brian Bunk about how the footage was discovered, the contents and context of the footage, and ongoing efforts to acquire further footage from Scandinavia.

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mQNK6_Q53c&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=4&pp=iAQB

For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/