American Soccer's History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes
Distant Corners In the series Sporting edited by Amy Bass Also in this series: Zack Furness, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility Michael Ezra, Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon Thomas Hauser, The Boxing Scene David Wangerin, Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America’s Forgotten Game Grant Farred, Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football Tommie Smith, Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith David Wangerin Distant Corners American Soccer’s History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes TemPLE UNIVERSITY PRess Philadelphia TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2011 by David Wangerin All rights reserved Published 2011 All attempts have been made to locate the owners of the photographs published in this book. If you believe you may own one of them, please contact Temple University Press so that appropriate acknowledgment may be included in subsequent editions of the book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wangerin, David. Distant corners : American soccer’s history of missed opportunities and lost causes / David Wangerin. p. cm. — (Sporting) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-4399-0630-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Soccer—United States—History. 2. Soccer—History. I. Title. GV944.U5W359 2011 796.3340973—dc22 2010045075 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Printed in the United States of America 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 Contents Preface: Worthy Diversions vii A Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 “Here They Come!” Pilgrims, Corinthians, and the “Foreign Game” as Invader 1 2 Foreign Bodies and Freezing Fans: The Births of the USFA and the National Challenge Cup 34 3 Bullets: Thomas William Cahill, 1863–1951 58 4 Mild Bill: Bill Jeffrey, Penn State, and College Soccer between the Wars 101 5 Dash, Desperation, and Deviltry: St.
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