EP 1: SASH’s Second Virtual Symposium: “Domestic Leagues and International Stories” (June 2020)

The Society for American Soccer History organized a virtual symposium to replace the symposium originally scheduled for the weekend of April 18-19 at Rutgers University-Newark. The Rutgers-Newark symposium was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The presenters and their presentations are:

Kurt Rausch – Samuel Bustard and Soccer Through The Turbulent Teens
Patrick Sullivan – A Fine Silver Cup: Notable Trophies of Southern Soccer, 1897-1968
Kevin Tallec Marston – Citizen or Subject? Nationality and a Sporting Diplomatic Governance Scandal Avoided After England vs. USA, 1950
Dan Creel – A Veritable Watergate of Soccer: the 1976 American Soccer League Season
Steve Holroyd – When Everyone Could Be a Striker: The NASL Players Job Action of 1979
Zachary R. Bigalke – Border Crossings: American-Born Mexicans at International Women’s Tournaments

View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8APxWPSL-4&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyzsjwqaUbfVHGlViKERfYDn

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