SASH Sessions

Brian Bunk reviews the American Soccer League’s first season and names the player and team of the year.
Theme song: Bix Beiderbecke, “Clarinet Marmalade”Headlines: Waring’s Pennsylvanians, “Bolshevik”Sponsor: Frank Teschemacher’s Chicagoans, “Jazz Me Blues”Additional Music: Abe Lyman ,”A Jazz Holiday”Whispering Jack Smith, “Feelin’ Kind O’Blue”Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines, “Big Boy”Sounds from www.freesound.org: football score.wav by winsx87
Episode premiered July 2015
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk examines the American Soccer League at the halfway point in the first season. He also recounts the performance of ASL clubs in the 1921-22 National Challenge Cup and other state and regional competitions.
Music in the episode from archive.orgTheme song: Bix Beiderbecke, “Clarinet Marmalade”Headlines: Waring’s Pennsylvanians, “Bolshevik”Sponsor: Frank Teschemacher’s Chicagoans, “Jazz Me Blues”Additional Music: Paul Whiteman , “That American Boy of Mine”Lena Wilson and the Jazz Masters, “The Wicked Five Blues”Zez Confrey, “Stumbling”Sounds from www.freesound.org: football score.wav by winsx87
Episode premiered June 2015
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk details the first quarter of the 1921-22 American Soccer League season.
Music in the episode from archive.orgTheme song: Bix Beiderbecke, “Clarinet Marmalade”Headlines: Waring’s Pennsylvanians, “Bolshevik”Sponsor: Frank Teschemacher’s Chicagoans, “Jazz Me Blues”Additional Music: Dick de Pauw and his Royal Dance Orchestra , “Somebody and Me”Leo Mathisen Orchestra, “Little Girl”DeFord Bailey, “John Henry”Sounds from www.freesound.org: football score.wav by winsx87
Episode premiered May 2015
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk details the origins and first days of the American Soccer League. Launched in 1921 it was the nation’s first major professional league.
Music in the episode from archive.org Theme song: Bix Beiderbecke, “Clarinet Marmalade”Headlines: Waring’s Pennsylvanians, “Bolshevik”Sponsor: Frank Teschemacher’s Chicagoans, “Jazz Me Blues”Additional Music: John McCormack, “A Little Bit of Heaven”Amparito Farrar, “Madelon”Hoagey Carmichael, “Bessie Couldn’t Help It”Sounds from www.freesound.org: football score.wav by winsx87
Episode premiered September 2015
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk recounts the history Vampire Association Football Club, a team from San Francisco, California, that first appeared in 1897.
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Episode premiered October 2014
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk looks at the history of the first documented women's soccer game played in the United States, which took place on December 3, 1893, in San Francisco between the Colleen Brawns and Bonnie Lassies.
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Episode premiered October 2014
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk tells the story of the soccer tournament held at the Inter-Allied Games in Paris from June 22 to July 6, 1919.
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Episode premiered October 2014
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk talks to soccer historian Steven Apostolov.
Episode premiered December 2014
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk looks at Major Indoor Soccer League franchise the Hartford Hellions and tries to explain why it lasted only two seasons.
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Episode premiered April 2014
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Brian Bunk looks at some of the earliest soccer games played in the US. It recounts the history of kicking-style games at a number of colleges, especially Princeton.
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Episode premiered January 2014
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/