{"id":145,"date":"2010-09-15T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/dear-old-wabash\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:56:56","slug":"soccer-at-wabash-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/2010\/09\/15\/soccer-at-wabash-early-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer at Wabash &#8211; Early days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soccer team at Wabash is strong and well established and the fans are loyal and excited for this season. I thought this might be a good time to take a look back at the beginnings of this sport at Wabash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-late-60s-II-LO.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-late-60s-II-LO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a>The photo above was taken in the late 1960&#8217;s, although I don&#8217;t have a specific date. The Wabash Soccer Club was formed in 1965 with John Fischer as the driving force. He gathered a team,\u00a0 lobbied the administration and, with help from John Ledyard, had taught many players the game (there were no mini soccer leagues for kids then). The students were new to this sport, but it was embraced and in 1966 the club had a full season.<\/p>\n<p>It was decided that for the 67 season, soccer would become a varsity sport and a head coach, Phil Daly was hired.\u00a0 With Fischer as assistant coach, soccer was up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pictures of the early days of soccer at Wabash&#8230;Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-41.jpg 435w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-41-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-769\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-21.jpg 441w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-21-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-770\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-31.jpg 436w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-31-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beth Swift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soccer team at Wabash is strong and well established and the fans are loyal and excited for this season. I thought this might be a good time to take a look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/09\/Soccer-filmstrip-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}