SASH Sessions

Soccer History USA ep. 2: The Holyoke Falcos

Brian Bunk discusses the Holyoke Falcos and the first season of American Soccer League.
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Episode premiered July 2013
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Soccer History USA ep. 1: The Oneida Football Club

Host Brian Bunk discusses the Oneida Football Club of Boston.
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Episode premiered May 2013
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 26: Live from the Women’s World Cup with Jen Cooper and Declan Abernathy (August 2023)

Host Zach Bigalke is joined by Jen Cooper and Declan Abernathy from the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia & New Zealand.
Jen Cooper, the editor and publisher of Keeper Notes, has been involved in various areas of Houston soccer since the 1990s. She also works as a researcher and stats provider, including for Fox Sports at this summer’s Women’s World Cup and previous men’s and women’s World Cup tournaments. She’s in her second year as a member of the Society’s executive board.
Declan Abernathy is a PhD student in the History and Sociology of Technology and Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A native of Florida and a graduate of Cornell University, Declan is working on a dissertation titled “Grass Ceiling: The United States Women’s National Team, Politics, and the Making of 21st Century Icons.”
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=lFe4o529hyY
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 25: Harlem’s Chief Representatives: Black Soccer Radicalism in New York City, 1928-1949 (May 2023)

Tom McCabe hosts Jermaine Scott for a presentation titled, “Harlem’s Chief Representatives: Black Soccer Radicalism in New York City, 1928-1949.”
Jermaine is an Assistant Professor of African American, African Diasporic, and Sport History at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include the cultural politics of sport, Black politics, Black diaspora studies, Black popular culture, and postcolonial studies. His manuscript-in-progress, Black Soccer: Football and Black Politics in the African Diaspora, seeks to understand how Black athletic collectives across the African Diaspora negotiated the colonial and racial constitution of modern sports, and football/soccer in particular. His writings have been included in ESPN’s The Undefeated, the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives, the Journal of Sports History, and the Journal of African American History.
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=XJtKJCJQaKU&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=26&t=797s&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 24: A Book Talk with Kelcey Ervick, author of ”The Keeper: Soccer, Me and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives” (February 2023)

Host Chuck Carlson is joined by Kelcey Ervick to discuss her book, The Keeper: Soccer, Me and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives.
In the graphic memoir, Ervick looks at the role that Title IX has played in expanding opportunities for women in soccer, and sport in general, in the United States. Ervick was a goalkeeper for nationally-ranked soccer teams in high school and college in the first decades of Title IX. The book includes her own story as well as those of pioneering women soccer players.
In addition to The Keeper, she has authored three other books. A professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend, Ervick has a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. For more information, please visit her website.
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=auv1hWImG-I&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=25&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 23: A Book Talk with James Brown, author of ”Mud, Blood and Studs”

Tom McCabe is joined by SASH vice president James Brown to discuss his new book, Mud, Blood and Studs: One Family’s Legacy in Soccer and Rugby Across Three Continents.
From the publisher’s description:
Mud, Blood and Studs is a special story of sporting excellence passed from generation to generation. An alcoholic father abandons his family in Troon, Scotland, and sails for America, but against the odds his offspring prosper, as his four boys have natural athletic ability. Oldest son, Jim, travels to America to track down his father and finds a country in the throes of the Great Depression. However, his superb soccer skills win him selection for the 1930 US World Cup team. In 1932, he signs for Manchester United, and later for Spurs. Jim passes his skills on to his son, George, who becomes a USA All-Star and USMNT player. Jim’s brothers, John and Tom, shake up Scottish football, and John hands down his sublime hand-to-eye coordination to sons Peter and Gordon, who make their mark in international rugby. Then there are Peter and Gordon’s cousins, the Lambies, who impact South African rugby. This fascinating book brings you the inside track on a remarkable family who overcame adversity to thrive at the top level of sport.
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=A6uBqqqvwjE&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=24&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 22: A Book Talk with Matthew Evans, author of ”USA 94: The World Cup That Changed the Game” (November 2022)

Host Tom McCabe is joined for a Book Talk by author Matthew Evans to discuss his new book, USA 94: The World Cup That Changed the Game.
Evans is a freelance football writer who specializes in the history of the game. He has written extensively on all eras of the beautiful game for various online outlets as well as appearing on podcasts and in print for These Football Times and Nutmeg magazine. He is a huge fan of football nostalgia, and the 1994 World Cup remains a massive part of his education, having absorbed the tournament as a teenager.
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=ffWYQZ-jNVc&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=23&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 21: 20th anniversary of the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship (October 2022)

On the eve of the 2022 U-17 Women’s World Cup, host Tom McCabe is joined by women’s soccer historian Jen Cooper for a look back at the first FIFA women’s youth championship held in Canada in 2002 and the growth of FIFA women’s youth tournaments since then.
That inaugural event — known as the FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship — featured several young players who are now household names, including Marta, Cristiane, Christine Sinclair, Heather O’Reilly, and Alex Scott. The 12-team tournament boasted an average attendance of more than 11,000 fans per game, including more than 47,000 for the final between host Canada and Concacaf rival USA — one of the last FIFA finals played under the golden goal rule.
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=Liv0pht1eUE&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=22&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 20: Great Lakes Soccer from the 1880s to the 1930s and the Emergence of the Intercity League (September 2022)

Host Tom McCabe is joined by Craig Tower for a discussion of soccer in the Great Lakes region, 1880s-1930.
While the Great Lakes is now seen as a cradle of traditionally “American” sports — gridiron football, baseball, and basketball — the history of intercity soccer and efforts to form a Midwest intercity league go back to the 19th century. The roots of the sport predate the modern rules of association football, and the game was played throughout the region, well beyond St. Louis and Chicago which have long been recognized for their soccer communities. From urban centers like Cincinnati to relatively obscure locales like East Liverpool, Ohio and Muncie, Indiana, soccer found a home in the Great Lakes States of the Midwest.
After years of efforts to launch competitive intercity play, in 1929, a six-team USFA-sanctioned professional league was formed in three U.S. cities with long-standing multi-tiered amateur and semi-pro leagues and soccer histories, each dating back to at least 1890. The cities in the league were the economic powerhouses of Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland – the 2nd, 4th, and 6th largest cities in the nation by population. The teams were competitive, challenging Eastern professional sides for the US Open Cup; stealing stars from the ASL, Europe, Canada, and each other; going toe-to-toe with teams from Europe and Latin America; and placing players on the 1930 US National team which reached the semifinals of the World Cup. The league and the teams innovated, playing a mixed schedule with both a regular season and a tournament structure, experimenting with indoor games and under lights, and expanded existing soccer networks in the Midwest, Middle Europe, Canada, and Latin America.
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=zjBhCvlSsvs&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=21&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 19: 50th Anniversary of the New York Cosmos first NASL Championship (August 2022)

New York Cosmos historian and SASH director Dr. David Kilpatrick hosts a roundtable discussion with New York Cosmos alumni Randy Horton, Josef Jelinek, Werner Roth, and John O’Reilly on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the team’s first North American Soccer league (NASL) championship. 
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=UmvRJoZrK4w&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=19&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/