Excerpt from Spalding's Official "Soccer" Football Guide: 1918-19 Another phase of soccer has developed as a result of the war. The great congregation of workmen in the plants devoted to the construction of war material has made the furnishing of a healthful recreation for these workers essential. Following the lead of the Bethlehem Steel Company, the various steel mills and shipbuilding plants have made soccer a major sport and good players are in great demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.