Bookshelf: Soccer in a Football World (Chapter 3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Chapter 3: Strangers on a Boat

In this chapter, Wangerin continues to focus on the American soccer community's struggle to crack into the "Big Three" sports of the early 20th century (e.g., baseball, boxing, and college soccer), but looks at that struggle through the prism of the U.S. men's national team.

Wangerin specifically focuses on the era between the United States men's national team's first official international competition in 1916 and 1950s--most notably, the program's historic 1-0 upset of England in the 1950 World Cup.