Monthly Archives: November 1996

Group 2 Nov. 9 in Tblisi Georgia 0 England 2. Goals: Sheringham 15, Ferdinand 37. Att.: 75,000. Team GP W T L GF GA P England 3 3 0 0 7 1 9 Italy 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 Poland 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Georgia 2 0 0 2 0 […]

Doug Hartmann Collinsville, Ill. My son’s team (SIU-Edwardsville) went from Division I to Division II this year, and there seems to be some confusion on how a men’s Division II team gets a [postseason] bid. Is there some secret way these are selected? We played Northern Kentucky [recently] and read in their media guide that […]

Group 2 Nov. 8 in Cairo Egypt 7 Namibia 1. Goals: Maher 1, 15, 70, A. Hassan 11, I. Hassan 35, H. Hassan 73, 84; Shivute 25. Att.: 30,000. Standings Team GP W T L GF GA P Egypt 1 1 0 0 7 1 3 Liberia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tunisia […]

One week after the MLS final, I opened my Sunday paper to find two articles about soccer, but not the soccer of MLS or World Cup or NCAA or FIFA. In the Metro section of the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner was a story about the local “Soccer in the Streets” chapter. On the back page […]

No one has done more homework on the USA’s qualifying opponents than national team coach Steve Sampson, who has spent several months closely tracking the progress of his three CONCACAF rivals Here are Sampson’s thoughts on the next U.S. opponent, Trinidad & Tobago “Unfortunately, the tragedy in Guatemala might serve to their benefit — now […]

The New England Revolution was the only team to pick up a player through the MLS waiver allocation draft today, selecting Greg Lalas with the second pick of the first round. Each of the other nine teams passed. Lalas, a defender who played in three games for the Tampa Bay Mutiny this past season, will […]

Note: All conference standings through Nov. 3. ACC Final Standings TEAM W L T *North Carolina 7 0 0 Duke 3 3 1 Clemson 3 3 1 N.C. State 3 3 1 Virginia 3 3 1 Maryland 2 3 2 Florida State 2 5 0 Wake Forest 2 5 0 * clinched regular-season title. Note: […]

Features U.S. Escapes From Hostile Capital With Big Win By Ridge Mahoney U.S. Dashes Guatemalan `Dream’ By Ridge Mahoney D.C. United Takes Unique Double By Steven Goff College Coaches Address Campus Drinking By Dan Woog Manchester United Shell-Shocked By Home Loss Tahj Jakins Rules The Unfriendly Skies By Mark Shapiro UNC’s Robin Confer Spreads Her […]

Nov. 6 in Mexico City Mexico 3 Honduras 1. Goals: Galindo 32, Hermosillo 34, Zaguinho 42; Zenteno 69. Att.: 114,000. Group 3 Standings Team GP W T L GF GA P Mexico 5 4 0 1 15 5 12 Jamaica 4 2 1 1 7 3 7 Honduras 5 2 1 2 7 8 7 […]

The 10 teams of MLS have announced their lists of protected players. Each club also waived non-protected players, and these players will be available in a waiver draft held via conference call Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. (ET). The teams will draft in the following order Colorado New England Columbus San Jose MetroStars Kansas City […]

G Josh Fouts (Gonzaga) (1) 1-0 shutouts of WCC foes USF and St. Mary’s D Olivier Bityeki (UMBC) (1) Scored all three goals in two wins D Jesse Leff (Columbia) (1) Assisted on gamewinners vs. LIU and Princeton M Ross Paule (Creighton) (1) Hat trick in 3-2 win over Drake M Will Kohler (Harvard) (1) […]

G Misty Long (Evansville) (1) 9 saves in upset of Minnesota D Allison Peppers (Kentucky) (1) Freshman’s goal beats Northwestern D Amy VanLaecke (Notre Dame) (2) Plays in back vs. Villanova, scores 2 M Devon Bingham (Harvard) (1) Scores gamewinner against Dartmouth M Holly Manthei (Notre Dame) (2) Breaks Mia Hamm’s single-season assist mark (37) […]

Paul Caligiuri, No. 2 on the all-time U.S. caps list with 111 appearances, will miss the USA-Trinidad & Tobago game Nov. 10 in Richmond, Va., in order to return to Los Angeles, where his father, Robert, will undergo heart surgery Thursday. Caligiuri, who did not play in the USA-Guatemala game Nov. 3, will rejoin the […]

Note: All conference standings through Nov. 3 unless other noted. ACC TEAM W L T *Virginia 4 0 2 Duke 3 3 0 Clemson 2 2 1 North Carolina 2 2 1 Wake Forest 2 3 0 Maryland 1 2 2 N.C. State 1 3 2 * clinched regular-season title. Note: Tournament champion gets automatic […]

First Round Nov. 6 William Smith (12-4-0) at Ithaca (14-3-0) Skidmore (11-4-2) at Rochester (13-3-1) Heidelberg (16-2-0) at Wooster (18-2-0) Gustavus-Adolphus (15-2-1) at Macalester (14-2-2) Cal Lutheran (17-2-0) at UC San Diego (16-1-0) North Carolina Wesleyan (15-2-2) at Randolph-Macon (17-1-1) Bates (11-2-1) at Bowdoin (11-1-2) Stockton (13-4-2) at Kean (11-2-1) Second Round Nov. 9 William […]

Women’s NCAA Division III West Region 1 U.C. San Diego 14-1-0          CS-LA 4-0 2 Cal Lutheran l4-2-0          Redlands 5-0 3 LaVerne 14-4-0          Occidental 5-0          Whittier 2-0 4 UC Santa Cruz 8-4-1 5 Chapman 10-7-0          Claremont-M-S 2-1          Whittier 5-0          Cal Baptist 1-2 New York Region 1 Binghamton 17-1-0 2 […]

Women’s NCAA Division II Central Region 1 St. Joseph’s 21-1-1 (30)          DePauw 4-2          W. Michigan 1-0 2 SIU-Edwards. 16-3-2 (27)          Ashland 6-1          Wheeling Jesuit 3-1 3 MO-St. Louis 16-7-0 (24)          Washington U. 5-1          Wheeling Jesuit 3-1          Ashland 0-1 4 Truman St. 12-3-5 (21)          Denver 1-0          No. […]

Women’s NCAA Division I Central Region 1 Nebraska 19-0-0          TCU 4-0          SMU 2-0 2 Texas A&M 18-2-0          UNCG 2-0          Massachusetts 3-0 3 Vanderbilt 11-8-0          Colorado Coll. 1-0 4 So. Methodist 10-5-4          Creighton 4-2 (OT)          Nebraska 0-2 5 Baylor 16-2-0          SFA 7-1          UTEP 1-0          North Texas […]

Eddie Pope, hero of the MLS Cup ’96 with his winning goal in overtime, and David Wagner, the German-born striker at Schalke 04 who has American citizenship, joined the U.S. team at its training camp in Richmond, Va., for its game Nov. 10 against Trinidad & Tobago. Defender Gregg Vanney has returned home, though Steve […]

Men’s NCAA Division I Great Lakes Region 1 Indiana 12-2-2 (49)          Coll. Charleston 2-1          So. Carolina 1-0 2 Bowling Green 15-3-1 (46)          E. Michigan 5-1          Dayton 8-1          W. Michigan 8-0 3 Evansville 14-4-0 (38)          Bradley 3-2          Saint Louis 3-1 4 Michigan St. 11-4-1 (37)          W. Michigan 1-0 […]

NSCAA/UMBRO Select Men’s NCAA Div. I Rank/School Record Pts. 1 Virginia (24) 15-0-3 480 2 Washington 14-2-0 443 3 Air Force 13-1-3 406 4 St. John’s 15-2-1 397 5 UNCG 18-1-0 381 6 Indiana 12-2-2 361 7 Harvard 12-1-0 317 8 Wm. & Mary 14-2-1 309 9 UCLA 14-3-0 295 10 So. Methodist 13-4-1 240 […]

Men’s NCAA Division III South Central Region 1 Wheaton 16-0-1 (40)          Chicago 3-0          Augustana 3-0          Carthage 2-0 2 Trinity 16-1-0 (36)          Austin 4-1          DePauw 2-0          TX Lutheran 3-1 3 UW-Oshkosh 15-2-0 (32)          Ripon 7-3          Luther 0-2 4 Centre 11-6-1 (25)          Savannah 4-1          Maryville 1-0 5 […]

Men’s NCAA Division II South Region 1 Lander 14-3-1          Erskine 4-1          Lenior-Rhyne 10-0 2 St. Leo 13-3-2          Augusta 4-0          SC-Aiken 7-1 3 Lynn 9-3-4          Florida Atlan. 0-1 (OT)          Rollins 1-1 (OT) 4 Tampa 11-3-2          Eckerd 3-1 5 AL-Huntsville 15-0-1          W. Florida 4-0          Montevallo 4-1 6 Presbyterian […]

NSCAA/UMBRO Select Women’s NCAA Div. I Rank/School Record Pts. 1 Notre Dame(14) 18-1-0 374 2 N. Carolina (1) 17-1-0 361 3 Portland 14-0-2 341 4 Connecticut 19-1-0 333 5 Nebraska 19-0-0 307 6 Santa Clara 13-3-1 297 7 Texas A&M 18-2-0 282 8 Florida 17-2-0 255 9 Maryland 17-3-2 248 10 Wisconsin 12-3-4 245 11 […]

Thomas Rongen, Major League Soccer’s 1996 Coach of the Year, has announced his intention to leave the Tampa Bay Mutiny, whom he led to a 20-12 record in its first season, in order to take the head coaching job at the New England Revolution. Mutiny GM Nick Sakiewicz said he hopes to name a new […]