What company owned the New England Tea Men of the NASL?
The name makes sense for two reasons: there’s the tea revolt of centuries gone by and the fact that Lipton Tea actually owned the team. The name made less sense when the team moved from Boston to Jacksonville, Florida, for the 1981 season. Excerpt from The First American Soccer Trivia Book by Jamie Clary; Copyright 2007 FreeFalling Graffiti Between Bristol and Memphis A state that shares the city of Bristol with Tennessee, is where the first known mention of soccer was played in the United States. Which state? Henry Spelman was an immigrant from England who came to the New World, more specifically the Virginia colony. He lived with other immigrants and with the Powhatan Indians, chronicling his life in a journal that was published in 1872. In the book, titled Relation of Virginia, Spelman wrote of a football game and making “gooles”. Excerpt from The First American Soccer Trivia Book by Jamie Clary; Copyright 2007 FreeFalling Graffiti Cindy Parlow, who played for the United States Wome
