Tag: Washington Darts
52 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Lancers won the NASL title
The Rochester Lancers’ 3-0 win over the Washington Darts in the first leg of the North American Soccer League championship series in Rochester came at great cost as Carlos Metidieri was forced out of the first leg with a slight dislocation of his right knee early in the second half when he was tackled by Willie Evans. Metidieri, who was seen hobbling around on crutches, was listed as questionable for the second leg in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 13.
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51 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Lancers won the NASL title
The Rochester Lancers’ 3-0 win over the Washington Darts in the first leg of the North American Soccer League championship series in Rochester came at great cost as Carlos Metidieri was forced out of the first leg with a slight dislocation of his right knee early in the second half when he was tackled by Willie Evans. Metidieri, who was seen hobbling around on crutches, was listed as questionable for the second leg in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 13.
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IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: When the Lancers won the 1970 NASL title
Yes, it was 50 years ago, Sept. 13 1970, that the Lancers won the North American Soccer League...
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IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Lancers took their first step toward the NASL
Yes, it was 50 years ago, Sept. 6, 1970, that the Lancers won the first game of their aggregate goal series against the Washington Darts. They still had to wait a week until to make it official.
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HONORING A PAIR OF LEGENDS: Ellis, Phillips to receive Chyzowych Lifetime Achivement Awards
Jill Ellis directed the USWNT to its second consecutive world championship in 2019. (Michael...
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THE GREAT INDOORS — PART I: Original Lancers set the table decades ago
When the Rochester Lancers take to the Dome Arena field for their Major Arena Soccer League 2 opener against the Detroit Waza Flo Friday night, it may be the first game to be held at the Henrietta, N.Y. venue, but it won’t be the first time the sport has been played in the Flower City.
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SOME FAMOUS FIRSTS: Of the revived Rochester Lancers through the years, indoor and outdoor
With the Rochester Lancers ready to take their first steps and kicks as an outdoor team against the Dayton Dynamo in a National Premier Soccer League game at Aquinas Institute Sunday at 4 p.m., it would be interesting to take a look at some famous firsts in the history of the franchise, indoor out out.
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