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ABSTRACT
In this article new biographical research relates Dublin-born Peter J. Peel’s early sporting activities to his professional career trajectory as a thrice-elected president of the United States Football Association (U.S.F.A.). His presidency culminated in leading the USA soccer team to the 1924 Paris Olympiad and subsequently to Dalymount Park in Dublin for the Irish Free State’s first home international soccer fixture. The paper will also detail the nature of Peter Peel’s simultaneous 1918 tenure as presidents of the United States Football Association (U.S.F.A.) and The Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago during the Irish conscription political crisis and the Paris Peace Conference. Peel’s career is interpreted through the prism of his early Limerick formation in a rugby-playing family and his own fluid sporting and civic activities.
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Notes
1. Freemans Journal, 25 May 1918.
2. Chicago Tribune, 29 May 1917.
3. Chicago Tribune, 7 April, 1918.
4. Cahill, Spalding’s official association ‘soccer’ football guide, 18.
5. O’Grady, ‘Irish-Americans, Woodrow Wilson and Self-Determination’, 161.
6. Ibid., 163.
7. Macardle, The Irish Republic, 236–67.
8. Chicago Tribune, 11 April 1918.
9. Irish Free State (Agreement) Act, 31 March 1922, 1922.
10. Chicago Tribune, 11 April 1918.
11. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, 31 May 1918.
12. Ó Maonaigh, ‘Who were the Shoneens?’ 1.
14. Charles Newton Wheeler, The Irish Republic; an analytical history of Ireland, 1914–1918, with particular reference to the Easter insurrection (1916) and the German plots, (Cahill-Igoe Company 1919), 262.
15. Limerick Leader, 2 April 1932.
16. Nation, 7 March 1874.
17. Margaret Mary McCarthy aka Peel (née Duggan): 1842–1920 https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/44184783/person/250112387316/story
18. Christian Brothers Schools Limerick, 1856–1925, Limerick Archives, 2001.
19. Limerick Leader, 23 November 1929.
20. The National Archives of Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Ireland Prisoner Registers.
21. Limerick Leader, 6 July 1940.
22. Limerick Chronicle, 11 October,1881.
23. O’Callaghan, Rugby in Munster.
24. Ibid., 125.
25. Chicago Tribune, 3 January 1933.
26. Limerick Chronicle, 25 February 1967.
27. Limerick Leader, 15 October 1954.
28. CBS, 8 August 1892, N.A.I., 5483/S.
29. O’Callaghan, Rugby in Munster, 79.
30. Ibid., 80.
31. Sport, 10 December 1887.
32. Limerick Leader, 12 August 1929.
33. O’Callaghan, Rugby in Munster, 84.
34. Limerick Leader, 17 August 1929.
35. Limerick Leader, 17 February 1899.
36. Evening Herald, 28 October 1899.
37. Chicago Tribune, 14 January 1906.
38. Chicago American, Date unknown, 1954 (from the Peel Family Collection)
39. Ibid.
40. Limerick Leader, 12 February 1936.
41. Keeler and Wright, ‘Amateurism in an Age of Professionalism’, 6.
42. Chicago Tribune, 19 July 1874.
43. Chicago Tribune, 14 August 1874.
44. Chicago Tribune, 1 October 1893.
45. Ibid., 136.
46. McCaffrey, Skerrett, Funchion, and Fanning, The Irish in Chicago.
47. Chicago Tribune, 3 January 1933.
48. Chicago Tribune, 20 September 1895.
49. The Chicago Tribune, and the Inter Ocean, 1890, passim. Logan, ‘Lace up the Boots, Full Tilt Ahead, 35.
50. Ibid., 34.
51. Limerick Leader, 23 November 1929.
52. The Inter Ocean, Chicago’s First Half Century, 63.
53. The Inter Ocean, 4 November 1894.
54. Ford, ‘Captain Crawford and the 1892 Chicago Athletics’, 1.
55. The Stentor 9, no. 3 (15 October 1895), 1.
56. Ibid., 2
57. Ibid.
58. The Inter Ocean, 13 October 1895.
59. The Stentor 9, no. 4 (22 October 1895), 6–7.
60. The Chicago Chronicle, 27 October 1895; The Chicago Tribune, and the The Inter Ocean, 1895; The Inter Ocean, 24 November 1895; The Chicago Chronicle, 8 November 1896.
61. Rush Medical College, Forty-Fourth Annual announcement, 1896–97.
62. The Chicago Tribune, 10 May 1896; The Inter Ocean, 5 June 1896; The Chicago Tribune, 16 August 1899.
63. The Chicago Tribune, 16 August 1908.
64. The Chicago Tribune, 18 July 1943.
65. Catherine (Kate) Peel (née Osbaldeston), https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/44184783/person/250112899654/story
66. Mattoon Commercial-Star, 25 January 1919.
67. The Chicago Tribune, 12 October 1916.
68. TheChicago Tribune, 13 February 1912.
69. Limerick Leader, 2 December 1936.
70. Limerick Leader, 23 November 1929.
71. Chicago American, Date unknown, 1954 (from the Peel Family Collection)
72. Logan, The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887–1939, 17.
73. The Chicago Tribune, and the Inter Ocean, 1890, passim. In Logan, ‘Lace up the Boots, Full Tilt Ahead’, 26–33.
74. TheChicago Tribune, 20 November 1899.
75. Chicago Tribune, 18 February 1906.
76. The Dispatch, 14 November 1905.
77. Chicago Tribune, 4 February 1906.
78. Year: 1900; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897–1957; Line: 19; Page Number: 273.
79. Chicago Tribune, 2 October 1905.
80. Chicago Tribune, 16 June 1909.
81. Logan, ‘Lace up the Boots, Full Tilt Ahead’, 97.
82. Chicago Tribune, 23 August 1908.
83. Logan, ‘Lace up the Boots, Full Tilt Ahead’, 97.
84. Ibid., 26.
85. Cahill, Spalding’s official association ‘soccer’ football guide, 7.
86. Chicago Tribune, 7 June 1915.
87. Cahill, Spalding’s official association ‘soccer’ football guide, 18.
88. Ibid., 19.
89. Ibid., 13.
90. Limerick Leader, 1 May 1918.
91. Chicago Tribune, 15 June 1916; The Pantagraph, 29 May 1917.
92. Chicago Tribune, 16 December 1917.
93. Chicago Tribune, 5 October 1917.
94. Ibid.
95. Funchion, ‘Chicago’s Irish Nationalists, 1881–1890ʹ, 70.
96. Ibid., 262–267.
97. Donegal News, 3 March 1906; Chicago Tribune, 21 April 1918; Chicago Tribune,1 March 1919.
98. Chicago Tribune, 27 October 1917.
99 . Limerick Leader, 8 August 1929.
100. Chicago Tribune, 21 December 1917.
101. Chicago Tribune, 9 February 1919.
102. Ibid.
103. Chicago Eagle, 1 February 1945.
104. Jose, The American Soccer League, 10.
105. The Standard Union, 14 March 1920.
106. Chicago Tribune, 7 March 1920; The Boston Globe, 15 March 1920.
107. St Louis Dispatch, 22 May 1920.
108. Limerick Leader, 5 May 1920.
109. Chicago Tribune, 28 June 1921; Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1923; Pittsburgh Daily Post, 1 November 1923.
110. Pittsburgh Daily Post, 1 November 1923; The Pantagraph, April 1924.
111. Ibid.
112. Pittsburgh Daily Post, 8 April 1924.
113. The St. Louis Star and Times, 7 April 1924.
114. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 July 1924.
115. The Boston Globe, 23 May 1924.
116. The Chicago Tribune Paris, 30 May 1924.
117. The Boston Globe, 19 June 1924.
118. The Boston Globe, 3 July 1924.
119. Ibid.
120. The Boston Globe, 5 July 1924.
121. Curran, ‘Unscrupulous adventurers who are domiciled in “the land of the Almighty Dollar”?’ 314.
122. The Irish Times, 16 June 1924.
123. Byrne, Green is the Colour, 96.
124. Pathe Newsreels, American Footballers play the Irish Free State Team at Dallymount Film ID: 334.05
125. Dáil Éireann Debate Mar 5, vol. 6, no. 22, 1924.
126. Nation, 7 March 1874.
127. Irish Independent, 9 September 1922.
128. Byrne, Green is the Colour, 78.
129. The Football Association, Minute Book, P137/2, September 23.
130. The FAI Papers, International Minute Book, P137/2, 18 October 1923.
131. Moore, The Irish Soccer Split, 170.
132. Evening Herald, 11 April 1924.
133. An t-Óglác, 2 August 1924, 6.
134. Moore, The Irish Soccer Split, 170.
135. Ibid.
136. Curran, ‘Unscrupulous adventurers who are domiciled in “the land of the Almighty Dollar”?’, 317.
137. Gerard Farrell, My United States of first ever, FAI Match Programme (Republic of Ireland v USA), June 2018.
138. Redmond, The Irish and the making of American sport, 1835–1920, 194.
139. Logan, ‘Lace up the Boots, Full Tilt Ahead’.
140. McCabe, ‘Football Sports Weekly and Irish Soccer’.
141. Ó Maonaigh, ‘Who were the Shoneens?’, 1.
142. McCabe, ‘Football Sports Weekly and Irish Soccer: 1925–1928ʹ, 148.
143. O’Callaghan, Rugby in Munster, 145.
144. Ibid., 125.
145. White, Dalymount Park.
146. Limerick Leader, 23 November 1929.
147. Limerick Leader, 7 June 1940.
148. Cork Constitution, 23 December (Black Watch versus Seaforth Highlanders, Markets Field Limerick)