Bookshelf: Soccer in a Football World (Chapter 1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (David Wangerin)

Chapter 1: A Game of Its Own

Wangerin opens with a summary of sporting history in the U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and he traces the history of soccer within that context from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s.