Whether it’s a club, a college, a supporter’s group or a professional team, history is an essential element for building strong, long-term soccer communities.

On January 9, 2025, at the United Soccer Coaches Convention in Chicago, David Kilpatrick and Chuck Carson led a discussion titled, “Implementing an Historical Initiative for Your Club, League, or Community.”

David Kilpatrick, a former SASH board member, is professor of English and program director of Sport Management at Mercy University and club historian for the New York Cosmos. Chuck Carlson is Chicago House AC club historian and a current SASH board member.

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at: https://youtu.be/P3LBfRWR3e8

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On December 6, 2024, SASH hosted an Oral History Workshop with Carly Adams, a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier I), Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition and Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Arrow Salkeld moderated the discussion.

The Oral History Workshop presented an overview of the basics of conducting oral histories while also delving deeper into how to make an oral history interview more conversational, how to bring out more analysis, and how to improvise rather than simply sticking to a script to only ask the participant predetermined questions.

Carly Adams is a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier I), Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition and Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. As a social historian and an advocate for oral history, her research explores community, resiliency, and gender with a focus on sport, recreation, and leisure experiences. She co-leads the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a community-based oral history project focusing on Japanese Canadian histories in southern Alberta (with Dr. Darren Aoki at the University of Plymouth, UK). She is the author of Queens of the Ice (Lorimer), editor of Sport and Recreation in Canadian History (Human Kinetics), co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport History (Routledge), and the editor of Sport History Review.

Her work has appeared in, among others, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Canadian Studies, Memory Studies, The International Journal of the History of Sport, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and many edited collections. Adams was the recipient of the 2023 NASSH Sue and Ron Smith Service Award and the NASSH 2022 Guy Lewis Award for Contributions to the Field of Sport History.

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIjpg0QDVko

Visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/

Join SASH at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/store...

Gabe Logan discusses the origins of the National Amateur Cup tournament with an emphasis on the aborted 1923 tournament and completed 1924 tournament. Gabe looks at how the 1924 championship resulted in the partial selection of the 1924 Olympic roster with a cursory examination of select team personnel.

A professor of history at Northern Michigan University, Gabe is the author of The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887–1939 (Lexington Books, 2019).

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMGiXiZt6k

Visit the Society for American Soccer History website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/