Brian Bunk details the origins and first days of the American Soccer League. Launched in 1921 it was the nation’s first major professional league.
Music in the episode from <a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20210124120652/http:/archive.org/'>archive.org </a> 
Theme song: Bix Beiderbecke, “Clarinet Marmalade” 
Headlines: Waring’s Pennsylvanians, “Bolshevik” 
Sponsor: Frank Teschemacher’s Chicagoans, “Jazz Me Blues” 
Additional Music: John McCormack, “A Little Bit of Heaven” 
Amparito Farrar, “Madelon” 
Hoagey Carmichael, “Bessie Couldn’t Help It” 
Sounds from <a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20210124120652/http:/www.freesound.org/'>www.freesound.org</a>: football score.wav by winsx87
Episode premiered September 2015
For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at <a href='https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/'>https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/</a>

Soccer History USA ASL Series, Season 1, ep. 2: At the Quarter Pole

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