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The forgotten history of soccer in Detroit. Banner - St. Andrews Scots vs. Philadelphia Ukranians 1959 [US Presswire]

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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 26/05/2020
17 May 1970 @HerthaBSC 🇩🇪 blanks @Coventry_City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2-0 in front of 7,659 at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck [Detroit Free Press, 18 May 1970
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Nicholas Murray @njemurray.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My colleague Sam Murphy hard at work on a Sunday night. Recaps of tonight's #USL-2 action which saw the Flint City Bucks and @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social advance to next Saturday's Final at Atwood Stadium in Flint, Mich., kickoff at 7:30 p.m. ET. #Path2Pro www.uslleaguetwo.com/news_article...
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Flint City Bucks to host Vermont Green FC in 2026 USL League Two Final presented by VensureHR
Late-game heroics and a dominant performance set up historic Final on Saturday
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MLive @mlive.com · 29/07/2026
The Bucks will face off against Vermont Green FC, an undefeated team that is coming into the playoff final with only one tie this season.
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Flint City Bucks to play for USL League Two title at Atwood Stadium this weekend
The Bucks will face off against Vermont Green FC, an undefeated team that is coming into the playoff final with only one tie this season.
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ArgyleUSA @argyleusa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thanks to @alexhinde.bsky.social and Plymouth Argyle Heritage Archive, every attendee of our October ChicArgo IRL event received replica posters from the 1954 Argyle US Tour, plus a tribute version as a weekend memento. Surely going up on many walls around the US! @pafc.co.uk
Program from 1954 Argyle-Dortmund match at Soldier Field Tribute program for the match-viewing event in Chicago in 2024. Program for the 1954 Argyle-Chicago All-Stars match at Shewbridge Stadium in Chicago. Program for 1954 Argyle-Chicago Polish Falcons match at University of Detroit Stadium in Detroit.
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Hail Hail History 🍀 @hailhailhistory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
13/16 The Bhoys pushed on through heat, exhaustion and endless civic banquets. Celtic made history when they played under proper floodlights for the first time at the University of Detroit stadium. #Celtic #CelticFC #WorldCup
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Frank MacDonald @frankmsounders.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
#OTD 1978 – Ex-Husky star Danny Vaughn scores twice for Detroit in 10-0 rout of San Jose at Pontiac Silverdome. It’s first professional goals for Vaughn, a rookie defender from Tacoma. Express teammate Trevor Francis ties NASL record with 5 goals.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It could have been worse. it could have been a Danish club
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Journal of Sport History @journsporthist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Holley Carburetor Soccer Club rose and was expelled from Detroit soccer between 1924 and 1930. Gabe Logan tells the story in JSH Vol. 53, No. 1. 🔗 bit.ly/48wzFTp #SportHistory #SoccerHistory #Skystorians
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Cutting the Carbs: The Rise and Expulsion of Detroit's Holley Carburetor Soccer Club 1924–1930
Abstract. From 1924 to 1930, Detroit's Holley Carburetor Company sponsored an amateur, and later a professional, soccer team in Detroit and the Midwest Professional Soccer League. The Holleys…
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US Open Cup News @thecup.us · 27/11/2025
Today in #USOpenCup history (Nov. 27, 1919): 15 yrs before the #Lions began their #Thanksgiving Day tradition, there was a #Turkey Day "football" game in #Detroit with Packard FC beating fellow Motor City club Bricklayers FC, 3-1, at Packard Park in Rd 2. cc: @ngsdetroit.bsky.social @detcityfc.com
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a lion mascot holds up a sign that says let 's go lions
ALT: a lion mascot holds up a sign that says let 's go lions
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Footage from Detroit Cougars at Atlanta Chiefs, Mar 30, 1968 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0p...
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1968 03 30 Detroit Cougars at Atlanta Chiefs
YouTube video by NASL 1968-1984 SOCCER HISTORY
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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
TIL: The Detroit Express hold the record for the largest margin of victory, ever, in a modern, top-flight American soccer league. They destroyed the San Jose Earthquakes 10-0 in 1978, with British phenom Trevor Francis scoring five goals.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Haven’t seen very many pictures of Packard Park
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Celtic Francophone CSC @celtic-francophone.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
On August 4, 1951, Gil Heron signed for #CelticFC 🍀💚 #Celtic : 04/08/1951 ➡️ 17/05/1952 👕 5 ⚽️ 2 #COYBIG 🍀🇮🇪☘️
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I played soccer for Sparta and if I ever find a club like this from there, it would be the greatest thing ever.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 11/03/2020
March 10, 1940 Cleveland Shamrocks behind a stout defense stymie Jim Goodfellow & his Detroit Chyrslers and knock them out of the Western Final of the National Amateur Cup 2-1 at Keyworth Stadium, breaking Chyrslers' 15 game win streak. [Detroit Free Press, March 11, 1940
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 09/01/2020
Chrysler vs Manhattans of Chicago in National Challenge Cup action at Keyworth Stadium, January 8, 1939 [Detroit Free Press, January 9, 1939
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 15/10/2021
In honor of the 85th anniversary of the opening of Keyworth Stadium, some grainy newspaper photos of soccer at the venerable old ground. Chrysler with a big 6-0 win over Chicago Nickeloid in the National Amateur Cup. [Detroit News 26 Feb 1940
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 13/05/2021
Morgan Strasser buries the National Challenge Cup title hopes of the Detroit All-Stars (along with keeper Joe Carelli) in the mud at Keyworth Stadium with a 2-1 victory. [Detroit Evening Times 13 Mar 1944
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 12/07/2022
Chrysler follows manager Johnny McInnes ins to "Shoot often and keep them off balance" to overcome a stout Cleveland Delardas side 2-0 at Keyworth Stadium to advance to the 3rd round of the National Challenge Cup. [Detroit News 9 Dec 1940
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 26/03/2020
Another case of controversial Open Cup finishes. Chyslers (Detroit) wins in a 2nd leg forfeit over Sparta (Chicago) when the visitors walked off with the game 2-2 prior to a second overtime at Keyworth Stadium. [Detroit Free Press, March 16, 1942
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 13/05/2021
Detroit All-Stars down the epically named Cleveland Boondoglers 5-1 in front of "select clientele" at Keyworth Stadium, moving on to the National Challenge Cup semifinals. [Detroit Evening Times 28 Feb 1944
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trevor Francis and Johan Cruyff at the Rose Bowl, 1979
Trevor Francis and Johan Cruyff catch up at a match between the Detroit Express and the Los Angeles Aztecs at the Rose Bowl
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Long-time Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford with the ball during a soccer match at St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School, Oakland, California [AP Photo 23 Apr 1945]
William Clay Ford, right, grandson of Henry Ford, takes the ball after a pass from Lawrence Beecher, left, during a soccer game at the St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School, where they are aviation cadets, in Oakland, Calif., April 23,1945
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Detroit Football Club, 1911 [Detroit Public Library Digital Collections, Burton Historical Collection, Clarence Faber Collection]
View of men from the Detroit Football Club, some wearing shirts with old English "D", posing on bleachers. Printed on ball: "Detroit F.C. 1911."
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Illustration of the Detroit Association Foot Ball team [Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov 1891] (with an assist from @brianbunk.bsky.social 's book "From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States")
Illustration of the Detroit Association Foot Ball Team, 3 rows of players with "Detroit" written on their shirts and 5 club officials in suits, front row seated and last two rows standing. Two trophies are placed in front of the players seated in the first row with the middle player with a football in his lap. Caption: "The Detroit Association Foot Ball Team, [Back] J.D. King, Wm Kay, M'Pherson, Fleming, John M'Kendrick, J.S. M'Kay, A.P. Young, [Middle] Corbett, Collie, Mascot, M'Millan, Stewart, Jas. M'Kendrick [Front] Ramsey, Henderson, W. M'Kendrick
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
They were built different back then, apparently
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Transferred almost all the posts from Twitter, we are so back.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
Detroit Express great Trevor Francis
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
Sport Club 1924's 100th anniversary is coming up & I'm doing a deep dive into the history of Detroit's oldest club. If anyone has interesting info about SC 1924, aka German Sport (German-Americans/Germania SC) aka German United aka Detroit Pioneers (incl. NASFL), get in touch
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 20/04/2023
Early US sports, notable for lack of politics. Detroit Young Workers League Soccer team would go on to be one of the top teams in the state by the end of the decade. Red sweaters with Hammer and Sickle. [Young Worker 4 Apr 1925
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 04/04/2023
1941 Chrysler Soccer Club of Detroit - Tony Barra, Aldo Patria, Bob Williamson, Doug Nelson, Tom Ferrans, Jeff Combs, Mark Molly, Tom Syme, John Leonard, Neil Campbell, John McInnes, George Hay, & George Borg. [Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 03/04/2023
A picked team of Michigan soccer players heads to Cleveland for the first leg of the Dewar Cup. 300 soccer supporters intend to make the trip "with a band to furnish music and noise." [Detroit News Tribune 19 Oct 1913
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 03/04/2023
At the Michigan State Soccer League end-of-season awards dinner, @detroitnews reporter Joe S. Jackson pledges press coverage for the sport of soccer. [Detroit New Tribune 27 Jul 1913
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 27/03/2023
1913 Wolverine Soccer Football Club of Detroit [Detroit News Tribune 25 May 1913
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 24/03/2023
1913 Caledonia Football Club [Detroit News Tribune 4 May 1913
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/03/2023
1911 Detroit Celtic Soccer Football Club ☘️ [Detroit News Tribune 23 Mar 1913
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 13/01/2023
This is a great high-level overview of the golden age of Detroit soccer in the 1920s & 1930s from @gabe65330234 The rise and fall of the Holley Carburetor Soccer Club podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lab…
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Labor History Today
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/08/2022
1912 the club was rescued from oblivion with renewed interest in the local sports community. Old member Henry B. Joy, President of Packard Motor Company, became the first member of the New Detroit Athletic Club. [Detroit News Tribune 1 Dec 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/08/2022
The DAC was in decline after the turn of the century. Many members served in the Spanish-American war.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/08/2022
Bringing in a great trainer Mike Murphy is credited for the great success of the club in track and field. Meanwhile, the DAC baseball team brought home an increasing number of local and regional trophies and became the "amateur champion of the world" in 1893.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/08/2022
In winter 1888 the American Athletic Union was formed and DAC was a charter member, hosting the first international athletic meet later that year in Sep 1888.
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/08/2022
Started in 1882 as the Amateur Athletic Association by baseball enthusiasts, renting the original DAC grounds from Penisular Cricket Club. This association grew and culminated in the incorporation of the Detroit Athletic Club in Sep 1887 and the building of the clubhouse in 1888
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 17/08/2022
An interesting in-depth article on the early history and renaissance of @DAC_Detroit [Detroit News Tribune 1 Dec 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 15/08/2022
Completely relateable pre-internet fandom
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 11/08/2022
NCAA was also in talks about soccer [Detroit News 26 Dec 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 11/08/2022
With soccer gaining steam within the state, the idea to form a Michigan College Soccer League is proposed by the Normal School of PhysEd (Battle Creek College). Candidates included Univ of Michigan, Ypsilanti Normal (Eastern Michigan) & Olivet College. [Det News 5 Nov 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 10/08/2022
Grand Trunks win the return game in Kalamazoo handily, 8-0, but soccer was a hit for the "Kalamazoolus". [Kalamazoo Gazette 15 Dec 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 10/08/2022
Kalamazoo Soccer Football club formed in November 1912, play its first game against Grand Trunk of Battle Creek and look to form a league [Kalamazoo Gazette 8 Nov | 27 Nov 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 09/08/2022
Leaving no stone unturned, Michigan even gave indoor soccer a try. [Kalamazoo Gazette 27 Dec 1912
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Silver Age Soccer @silveragesoccer.bsky.social · 09/08/2022
1st match for Michigan was a showdown with the school next door Ypsilanti Normal (Eastern Michigan). Sutton, a former member of a UK championship team, coaches Michigan. [Saginaw Daily News 7 Dec 1912 | Kalamazoo Gazette 12 Dec 1912 | Detroit News 14 Dec 1912
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