SASH Sessions

EP 8: “Gentlemen of Color”: Oliver and Fred Watson, the earliest known African American soccer players in the United States (February 2021)

Tom McCabe is the host and the subject is Oliver and Fred Watson, the earliest known African American soccer players in the US. Ed Farnsworth and Brian Bunk, co-authors of a recent paper on the Watsons at the SASH website, will discuss the Rhode Island-born brothers, who played on Pawtucket-area teams beginning in 1894.
Between them the Watsons’ achieved several milestones, including the first African American to play in a senior league match, the first African American to play — and score — in an American Cup match, the first African Americans to win a senior league championship, and the first African American to play with a professional soccer team.
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=olPXvg8OeEk&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=8&t=1600s&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 7: Soccer in the South Central and Midwestern United States (December 2020)

Kevin Tallec Marston is the host and the subject is the history of soccer in the South Central and Midwestern regions of the United States.
The presenters and their presentations are:
Patrick H. Salkeld, “‘The Daddy and Guardian Angel of Soccer Football Here’: Thomas Corden Powell and Soccer in Topeka, Kansas, 1910-1918”
Jeff Organ, “Texas Soccer History in Three Stories”
Rachel Allison, “Patterns of Place: Origins of Professional Women Players and Reflections from the Midwest”
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=qHPl-4K_CVY&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=7&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 6: Researching Club History (November 2020)

The subject is researching and presenting club soccer history and features three members of the Society, advisory board member Dr. David Kilpatrick of Mercy College, Bob Gansler, and Derek Goncalves. Tom McCabe is the host.
Kilpatrick, the official club historian of the New York Cosmos, will kick off the session speaking about the club historian and his decade-long work with the Cosmos. Gansler, Jr. will continue the session with his work on the nearly 100-year-old club Bavarian Soccer Club of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Goncalves will talk about the resurrected history of his hometown club, the Fall River Marksmen of Fall River, Massachusetts.
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=Zbjx70r0_9Q&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=6&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 5: A photographic tour of early Chicago soccer history with Gabe Logan (October 2020)

David Kilpatrick welcomes Gabe Logan, professor of history at Northern Michigan University, who discusses Windy City soccer history with images from his book, The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939 (Lexington Books, 2019). For information about the book, please visit https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498599030/The-Early-Years-of-Chicago-Soccer-1887%E2%80%931939
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=LfiMfUxYhKE&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=5&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

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/

EP 3: Beau Dure discusses his book ”2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer” (August 2020)

Tom McCabe hosts a Book Talk with Beau Dure, author of 2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer (2020). Dure discusses the state of women’s soccer in what he calls the “dark ages” of the early 2000s, and how the successful 2012 NWSL season anchored professional women’s soccer in the American soccersphere.
Dure has covered women’s soccer throughout his nearly 30-year journalism career, where he has written for the USA TODAY, The Guardian, FourFourTwo, and ESPN. A SASH member, Dure has been an enthusiastic supporter of documenting and sharing American soccer stories.
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=xI78fiWCbo0&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=1&t=6s
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

EP 2: The Scotch Professors (July 2020)

A discussion on the worldwide influence of the "Scotch Professors" and will feature presenters from the Scotch Professors Network of Scotland and the United States.
Hosted by Tom McCabe, the presenters and their presentations are:
Graeme Brown, The Story of the Lost Hampden Park: The World’s Most Important Football GroundGed O’Brien, The Scotch Professor: A Half-Hidden HistoryJim Mackintosh, Is Poetry About Sport Relevant?
David Kilpatrick, Tartan Threads Woven into US Soccer HistoryTom McCabe, A Soccer Brigadoon in the Swamps of JerseyScott Hollander, Scotch Professors: Scottish Influence on Early Soccer in Western New YorkJames Brown, The Scottish Influence on the 1930 USMNT World Cup Squad
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=B_U_2IJnSks&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=2&t=2234s&pp=iAQB
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

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 TeensPatrick Sullivan – A Fine Silver Cup: Notable Trophies of Southern Soccer, 1897-1968Kevin Tallec Marston – Citizen or Subject? Nationality and a Sporting Diplomatic Governance Scandal Avoided After England vs. USA, 1950Dan Creel – A Veritable Watergate of Soccer: the 1976 American Soccer League SeasonSteve Holroyd – When Everyone Could Be a Striker: The NASL Players Job Action of 1979Zachary 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/