Blake scored twice for Haverford and Reggio countered for Harvard in a battle of unbeatens for the intercollegiate soccer title. “Two 25-minute halves were played, with no time out between them on account of the cold weather.”
Yale 1:4 Springfield YMCA Training School (Att.: 100)
Yale home-opener on “the coldest day of the winter in New Haven …” [Read more…] about Dec. 8, 1906 – Harvard 1:2 Haverford, Intercollegiate Championship in Association Football, Soldiers Field
Christian Ohiri scored twice in his final game for Harvard (6-1-0, 12 points), which tied Brown for first place in the Ivy League standings, on the day of JFK’s assassination. Goals: Upton, Lambert; Ohiri 2, Akuffo.
Elizabethtown 5:0 Colby, NCAA regional tournament, Tufts Oval
Colby (10W-2L-1D) coached by John Winkin, who guided the White Mules’ baseball team and went on to extensive career coaching Maine’s baseball team. [Read more…] about Nov. 22, 1963 – Yale 2:3 Harvard, Varsity Soccer Field, New Haven
The U.S. (4W-1L-3D, 11 points) vaulted past Trinidad & Tobago into second place on the final day of CONCACAF qualifying for the 1990 World Cup. Goal: Caligiuri 30’.
Nov. 19, 1989 – North Carolina 2:0 Colorado College, NCAA Women’s Championship, Raleigh, N.C.
Poly Guyda was in the U.S. starting lineup for a 1-0 loss to Italy in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Poly Guyda (or Gajda) was born in Manchester, N.H., and played quarterback for the high school football team, then attended Lowell Institute and MIT. Guyda went on to star for several local teams, including the Boston Celtics and Lusitania Recreation, then became an assistant coach at Harvard into the mid-1950s. [Read more…] about July 6, 1936 – Andrew W. “Poly” Guyda selected for U.S. Olympic team
Manchester United emerged among the top teams in New England, defeating teams such as the Harvard University Crimson, during the early 1900s. At the time, Manchester United was tied with Clan McPherson for the league lead. Another team in New Hampshire was the Manchester Light Blues, which was tied with Andover for third place. [Read more…] about Dec. 21, 1912 – Lawrence 5:2 Manchester United. Upset of 1st-place team in Lawrence, Lowell & District Soccer League
According to The Boston Globe, the game between two Fall River soccer teams was “arranged by Gov.-elect Russell with Col. Spencer Borden of his prospective staff while the former was here to speak during the campaign.” There had been “a movement … to add Association foot ball to the regular list of sports at Harvard …”
The Rovers and Olympics had each won in two previous games against each other in 1890.
A separate Globe story reported: “…. The Fall River contingent … arrived home at 8 o’clock and the Rover men immediately began to paint County St., where the winning team’s clubs are situated, a bright red. The Olympics were favorites in betting … 50 to 10 … About $2,000 was wagered on the game by local sports.”
Another match under association football rules had been scheduled in Boston: “A game has been arranged between two Fall River teams for Christmas day on the Brotherhood base ball grounds.”
Dec. 25, 1890 – Chase Rovers 2:1 Fall River Clippers at Congress St. Grounds (Att.: 200)
”The cold wind whistled around the grounds made memorable by the brilliant work of Boston’s famous champions of 1890 (the Boston Reds baseball team, which lasted two seasons) and the foot ball players were unable to keep warm, not to speak of the spectators.”
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From The Boston Globe: “Osborne, Harvard’s sturdy left tackle in the game with Yale a week ago, was the pivot around which swung the impregnable formation of the Crimson forward line in the intercollegiate championship soccer match with Columbia … Osborne proved himself a versatile football player, seeming quite as much at home on the soccer gridiron as in the American college game.” [Read more…] about Dec. 1, 1906 – Columbia 0:1 Harvard at Cosmopolitan Park, Newark
John Kerry scored three goals, Jack Griswold two and captain Joe Upton one in Jack Marshall’s final game as Bulldog coach. Kerry scored his first goal in the 16th minute. [Read more…] about Nov. 19, 1965 – Yale 6:3 Harvard. John Kerry hat trick for Yale
Peter Vermes scored 15 seconds into the second half in a U.S. preparation match before the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Tony Meola saved an Aleksandar Dordevic free kick as Partizan played without three Yugoslavia national teamers, including starting defender Predrag Spasic. [Read more…] about May 20, 1990 – U.S. 1:0 Partizan Belgrade at Yale Bowl, New Haven, Conn. (Att.: 30,644)
The two-game series between Harvard and McGill (the teams played to a 0-0 draw on May 15, 1874) is considered a seminal event in the evolution of football codes in the U.S.
The opening contest was played by “Boston Game” rules, with a round ball that was kicked, soccer-style, but could also be carried and passed. The second game used McGill’s oval ball, which could be carried, the rules resembling rugby.
https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/date-history-first-football-game-was-may-14-1874-106694
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1968/3/13/the-history-of-harvard-sports-piduring/
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