Foreword / Brian M. Ingrassia -- Introduction : taking U.S. soccer history seriously / Chris Bolsmann -- The origins of football in the United States : foundation myths, memorialization, and rethinking the Oneida Football (Soccer) Club / Kevin Tallec Marston and Mike Cronin -- New York soccer pioneers / David Kilpatrick -- The New Jersey soccerscape : a cradle of early American soccer / Thomas A. McCabe -- Quaker City Kickers : Philadelphia soccer's growth from an immigrant pastime to a national leader / Ed Farnsworth -- Soccer in the sunny South : the amateur game in Atlanta, Auburn, Birmingham, and beyond, 1908-1915 / Patrick Sullivan -- Soccer in the Second City, 1886-1914 / Gabe Logan -- "An American style of football" : the origins of soccer in St. Louis / Dave Lange -- Soccer in the heart of Cascadia : Portland, Astoria, and the growth of the sport from 1890 to the advent of world war / Zachary R. Bigalke -- Soccer in San Francisco : the emergence and endurance of the ethnic and amateur game / Derek Van Rheenen -- Colleen Bawns and bonnie lassies : women's soccer and sporting culture in late nineteenth-century San Francisco -- Brian D. Bunk -- A Hollywood ending : the Los Angeles soccer "revival," 1906-1910 / George N. Kioussis -- Epilogue. Opening the soccer frontier : the beautiful game's American past and the potential for study in the future / Eileen Narcotta-Welp.
Summary:
"This collection explores soccer's development in the United States as waves of immigrants arrived and America's cities began to industrialize and become major cultural hubs in the late-nineteenth century. While America is largely known today as one of the few countries in which soccer is not its primary sport, this collection aims to shed light on the US's little-known soccer history by focusing on immigration and immigrant stories playing out in major American cities"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.