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The American Soccer League. The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931.
Colin Jose
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Description for The American Soccer League. The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931.
Hardback. Documented through newspaper clippings, written inquiries, memoirs and personal accounts, this text records not only the results, the goalscorers, the lineup teams that made up the American Soccer League from 1921 to 1931, but uncovers as much information as possible about the teams and players. Series: American Sports History Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 38. Weight in Grams: 938.
It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic, beat the best teams in the world at that time. This period from 1921 to 1931 were the "Golden Years of American Soccer." With the skyrocketing economic prosperity of the United States and its corollary flood of new immigrants to America's shores, came interest in soccer as a new ... Read more
It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic, beat the best teams in the world at that time. This period from 1921 to 1931 were the "Golden Years of American Soccer." With the skyrocketing economic prosperity of the United States and its corollary flood of new immigrants to America's shores, came interest in soccer as a new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Series
American Sports History Series
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810834293
SKU
V9780810834293
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Ref
99-15
About Colin Jose
Colin Jose, a soccer historian and journalist Jose is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (Wiesbaden, Germany), a director of the Society for American Soccer History (Oneonta, New York), and a member of the Heritage Committee of the Ontario Soccer Association.
Reviews for The American Soccer League. The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931.
...provides the best account of the ASL and the so-called "Golden Years" of American soccer to date and , as such, is invaluable to the professional historian of the game as much as the soccer enthusiast...Jose should be applauded for meticulously piecing together such an authoritative record of these "forgotten years of American soccer".
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