Featured image: Belmont Cricket Club main clubhouse, from a watercolor by Frank H.
Taylor
Tours by the English teams the Pilgrims (1905, 1909) and Corinthians (1906, 1911, and 1924)
attracted significant press coverage and drew large crowds when they stopped in Philadelphia. The
tours resulted in increased interest in soccer and helped to boost the formation of clubs and
leagues in the Philadelphia area.
Photo: Courtesy US Soccer
Philly Soccer Page
Today marks the return of one series and the start of another. First, fresh on the heels of our
series of raves, we begin our series of season reviews of every Philadelphia Union player who saw
more than ten minutes of action in 2011 (sorry Morgan!
At the beginning of the 1909-1910 Pennsylvania League season, Kensington's Hibernians, the
reining league champs, seemed a sure bet to repeat as champions. But the Tacony team had other
ideas. Led by what the Philadelphia Inquirer described as "the splendid half-back line" of
team captain Hector McDonald, former Scotland junior international Robert Morrison, and Percy
Potts, the Tacony team defeated the Hibs 2-0 on October 23, 1909.
