Tag Archives: International Soccer League
Robert F. Kelley
Robert F. Kelley (Sportswriter. Born, Narragansett Pier, RI, Sept. 15, 1900; died, Huntington, NY, Dec. 14, 1975.) Emerging as a man for many seasons, Robert Fulton Paul Anthony Kelley began his career at the New York Evening Post in 1920. Kelley covered horse racing, a little baseball, polo, yachting, and even the occasional football game. […]
Bob Harding
Bob Harding (Sportswriter. Born, New York, NY, Dec. 10, 1931; died, Baldwin, MD, Aug. 11, 1992.) As a versatile writer who covered most college sports and was the first public relations chief for the International Soccer League in the Polo Grounds (1960), Robert T. Harding spent much of his career as the racing writer for […]
Kevin DeMarrais
Kevin DeMarrais (Public relations. Born, Teaneck, NJ, July 13, 1942.) Now established as a business writer for The Record of Hackensack, N.J., Kevin Gerard DeMarrais had a long history of sports public relations. DeMarrais served as an assistant at the old International Soccer League in the summer of 1964 following his graduation from Columbia. He […]
Bill Cox
Bill Cox (Soccer. Born, New York, NY, Nov. 8, 1909; died, Mt. Kisco, NY, Mar. 28, 1989.) William Drought Cox was probably the man who restored soccer to a status as popular sport in the United States after it virtually disappeared from the American sports calendar during World War II. Cox led a group of investors […]