By David Wangerin
David Wangerin's funny and thorough publication tells the tale of yank soccer's lengthy fight from the short promise of the 1920's, during the euphoric highs and lavish follies of the North American football League, to modern-day hard-won popularity.
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One of them was with Guss Manning, who strenuously objected to the USFA’s failure to side with the British associations in their desire to exclude Germany and Austria from FIFA after the war. Much to Manning’s annoyance, Cahill’s high regard for an international governing body held sway. While the British pulled out of FIFA in 1920 (they rejoined four years later, only to quit again in 1928 over definitions of amateurism), the US showed commendable foresight by staying put. In February 1921 Cahill, perhaps sensing a plot to overthrow him, announced that he would not stand for re-election as USFA secretary, calling attention to what he perceived as a growing band of malcontents, of which Manning was almost certainly one.
Two years later a pro league formed in the area, and soon appreciable numbers of young men were playing for pay. (The game’s real strength, though, remained at an amateur level. ) By the early 1920s, then, a number of sports could be considered ripe for a big-time professional league, and it was scarcely a foregone conclusion as to which would succeed. It’s easy to forget how f luid the sporting landscape was in the interwar years. In Britain, too, new sports such as greyhound racing and speedway, and the imported game of ice hockey, enjoyed periods of considerable popularity.
Gate receipts were thus left at the mercy of the elements. An attendance of just 200 was reported for a quarter-final tie in New York, played in steady rain, while the Detroit derby between Packard FC and Roses FC attracted only about 500, a great pity in the light of the Detroit Free Press’s assertion that ‘those who witnessed the game ... were unanimous in the opinion that there was never a game staged in Detroit fraught with more brilliant play’. One could sympathise with the manager of the Niagara Falls Rangers, when asked whether his team would journey to Detroit in snowy January and honour its third-round tie with the Roses, certain to be a loss-making proposition.