1978 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season

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Tampa Bay Rowdies
1978 indoor season
OwnerUnited States George Strawbridge, Jr.
General managerUnited States Chas Serednesky, Jr
ManagerEngland Gordon Jago
StadiumBayfront Center
Top goalscorerLeague:
All:
South Africa Derek Smethurst (14 goals)
Highest home attendance6,410
(Feb. 3 vs. Diplomats) &
(March 10 vs. Kicks)
Lowest home attendance2,600
(May 3 vs. Norwich City)
Average home league attendance5,641
← 1977
1979 →

The 1978 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season was the fourth indoor season of the club's existence.

Overview[]

Though it had appeared, after the success of an international friendly between Tampa Bay and Zenit Leningrad in 1977,[1] that the North American Soccer League was finally poised to sanction a full indoor season for 1978,[2] the owners ultimately pulled the plug on the idea for the second straight year with a majority "no" vote.[3][4][5] The NASL however did not restrict teams from scheduling matches on their own.

Tampa Bay scheduled nine indoor games for 1978, eight of which were played. The Rowdies first match on January 28 against the Washington Diplomats also marked Gordon Jago's debut as Rowdies head coach.[6] [7] This was followed by two more matches with Washington. What would have been the fourth match of the season was canceled because the roof of the Hartford Civic Center Coliseum, where the Rowdies were scheduled to take on the Rochester Lancers, collapsed under the weight of a heavy snowfall in the early morning hours of January 18.[8][9] The next two matches, both against the Tulsa Roughnecks, marked the Roughnecks' first ever match and first ever match in Tulsa, played on February 11 and 14 respectively.[10] This was followed by matches against the Dallas Tornado and Minnesota Kicks. The Rowdies' final match was nearly two months later, an international friendly against Norwich City on May 3. All home games were played at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Club[]

Roster[]

No. Position Player Nation
1 GK Paul Hammond  England
2 DF Farrukh Quraishi  England
4 DF Arsène Auguste  Haiti
5 FW David Robb  Scotland
6 DF Mike Connell  South Africa
7 MF Steve Wegerle  South Africa
8 MF Wes McLeod  Canada
9 FW Adrian Alston  Australia
10 FW Rodney Marsh (capt.)  England
11 MF Graham Paddon  England
12 FW Derek Smethurst  South Africa
14 FW Joey Fink  United States
15 MF Mark Lindsay  England
15 MF Luis Papandrea  Argentina
16 DF Guy Newman  United States
17 FW Kevin Eagan  United States
18 GK Winston DuBose  United States
19 DF Frantz St. Lot  Haiti
20 FW Boris Bandov  United States
23 DF Tony Crudo  United States

Management and technical staff[]

  • United States George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner
  • United States Chas Serednesky, Jr., general manager
  • England Gordon Jago, head coach
  • United States Ken Shields, trainer
  • United States Alfredo Beronda, equipment manager

Competitions[]

Results summaries[]

Match reports[]

January 28, 1978 1 Washington Diplomats 7–6 (OT) Tampa Bay Rowdies Washington, D.C.
8:00 PM Welch Goal 0:52' (Garber)
Welch Goal 3:57' (Pringle)
Welch Goal 4:16'
Garber Goal 20:18' (Steele)
Garber Goal 22:24' (Steele)
Garber Goal 55:30' (Steele, Demkowski)
Askew Golden goal 63:04'  (Demkowski)		 Report Smethurst Goal 2:11' (Bandov)
Smethurst Goal 20:36' (Marsh)
Alston Goal 25:15' (Fink)
Smethurst Goal 28:14'
Smethurst Goal 40:19' (Quaraishi)
Fink Goal 41:23' (Smethurst, Wegerle)		 Stadium: D.C. Armory
Attendance: 3,662[11]
January 29, 1978 2 Washington Diplomats 3–11 Tampa Bay Rowdies Washington, D.C.
3:00 PM Welch Goal 42:52'
Garber Goal 55:47' (Darrell)
Steele Goal 57:24' (Welch)		 Report Crudo Goal 10:48' (Marsh)
Fink Goal 14:32' (Smethurst)
Wegerle Goal 20:25'
Fink Goal 21:25' (Quaraishi)
Quraishi Goal 30:39' (Crudo)
St. Lot Goal 31:26' (Wegerle)
Quraishi Goal 36:23'
Fink Goal 37:57'
Quraishi Goal 40:46'
Marsh Goal 46:27'
Marsh Goal 59:09' (Eagan)		 Stadium: D.C. Armory
Attendance: 3,111
February 3, 1978 3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 6–5 Washington Diplomats St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM Smethurst Goal 20:08' (Marsh)
Lindsay Goal 25:10' (Quraishi)
Lindsay Goal 28:36' (Marsh)
Auguste Goal 53:31' (Marsh, Smethurst)
Smethurst Goal 54:24'
Crudo Goal 57:10' (Alston)		 Report Welch Goal 3:13'
Askew Goal 37:20' (Welch)
Steele Goal 43:00'
Darrell Goal 44:13' (Garber)
Welch Goal 48:38' (Fink)		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,410
Referee: Fred Usher
February 5, 1978 4 Rochester Lancers Canceled Tampa Bay Rowdies Hartford, Connecticut
Cancelled due to roof collapse Report Stadium: Hartford Civic Center Coliseum
Note: Cancelled due to roof collapse.
February 11, 1978 5 Tampa Bay Rowdies 7–3 Tulsa Roughnecks St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM Smethurst Goal 4:29' (Lindsay)
McLeod Goal 13:58'
Fink Goal 26:15'
Quraishi Goal 29:59' (St. Lot)
Fink Goal 30:29' (Eagan)
Wegerle Goal 41:05'
McLeod Goal 49:38' (Eagan)		 Report A
Report B		 Goal 7:01'
Goal 8:34' (Stamenkovic)
Goal 11:26' (Molnar)		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,384
February 14, 1978 6 Tulsa Roughnecks 6–11 Tampa Bay Rowdies Tulsa, Oklahoma
8:00 PM (CST) Stamenkovic Goal 2:27'
Molnár Goal 16:25'
Goal 25:23' (Stamenkovic)
Molnár Goal 46:04' (Dovedan)
McKeown Goal 52:25' (Dovedan)
Molnár Goal 58:53'		 Report McLeod Goal 7:54' (Crudo)
Wegerle Goal 5:17' (Eagan)
Smethurst Goal 7:02'
Fink Goal 9:05' (Wegerle)
Lindsay Goal 13:11' (Wegerle)
Smethurst Goal 33:07' (Marsh)
Smethurst Goal 34:22' (Connell)
Smethurst Goal 41:29' (Bandov)
St. Lot Goal 53:34' (Bandov)
Marsh Goal 54:51' (Smethurst)
Smethurst Goal 56:37' (Lindsay)		 Stadium: Tulsa Assembly Center
Attendance: 3,250
February 18, 1978 7 Tampa Bay Rowdies 7–3 Dallas Tornado St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM Fink Goal 15:56' (Bandov)
Smethurst Goal 29:45' (Marsh)
Marsh Goal 42:50' (Eagan)
MarshGoal 43:37'
McLeod Goal 45:49' (Bandov)
Smethurst Goal 51:49' (Marsh)
McLeod Goal 53:14' (Eagan)		 Report Newman Goal 19:37' (Ryan)
Newman Goal 23:50' (Ryan)
Goal 41:04'		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,399
March 10, 1978 8 Tampa Bay Rowdies 11–2 Minnesota Kicks St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM McLeod Goal 3:49' (Marsh)
Eagan Goal 4:25' (Fink)
Marsh Goal 11:22'
Eagan Goal 12:46' (Alston)
Alston Goal 14:18'
Alston Goal 20:40' (Marsh)
Eagan Goal 45:00' (Alston)
Marsh Goal 52:10' (Fink)
Wegerle Goal 56:39' (Quraishi)
Wegerle Goal 58:51' (Marsh)
Fink Goal 59:57'		 Report Willey Goal 8:10' (Hamilton)
Goal 23:46'		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,410
May 3, 1978 9 Int’l friendly Tampa Bay Rowdies 10–11 (OT) Norwich City St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM Paddon Goal 11:20'
Fink Goal 18:56' (Marsh)
McLeod Goal 19:23' (Papandrea)
Wegerle Goal 24:45'
Bandov Goal 27:40' (Fink)
McLeod Goal 39:57' (Fink)
Marsh Goal 50:05' (Eagan)
Connell Goal 53:48' (Marsh)
Marsh Goal 54:07' (Connell)
Robb Goal 59:44'		 Report 1
Report 2		 Sainty Goal 17:55' (Suggett)
Sainty Goal 24:16' (Bond)
Ryan Goal 25:18' (Sainty)
Peters Goal 26:21'
Peters Goal 30:45' (Nightengale)
Ryan Goal 33:58'
Suggett Goal 34:58'
Sainty Goal 41:28'
Peters Goal 53:14' (Sainty)
Suggett Goal 59:32' (Ryan)
Peters Golden goal 63:43'  (Suggett)		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 2,384[12]
Referee: Sam Homich

Statistics[]

Scoring[]

GP = Games Played, G = Goals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point), Pts = Points

Player GP G A Pts
Derek Smethurst 6 14 4 32
Rodney Marsh 8 9 13 31
Joey Fink 8 10 6 26
Wes McLeod 5 8 0 16
Steve Wegerle 7 6 4 16
Kevin Eagan 7 3 7 13
Farrukh Quraishi 7 4 4 12
Adrian Alston 4 3 3 9
Mark Lindsay 7 3 2 8
Boris Bandov 6 1 5 7
Tony Crudo 7 2 2 6
Frantz St. Lot 7 2 1 5
Mike Connell 8 1 2 4
Arsène Auguste 7 1 0 2
David Robb 1 1 0 2
Graham Paddon 1 1 0 2
Luis Papandrea 1 0 1 1
Guy Newman 1 0 0 0

Goalkeeping[]

Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes; SV = Saves; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; W = Wins; L = Losses

Player GP Min SV GA GAA W L
Winston DuBose 7 428 111 35 4.91 5 2
Paul Hammond 1 60 11 5 5.00 1 0

Player movement[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Martz, Ron (March 11, 1977). "NASL considering adoption of indoor season". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Martz, Ron (March 12, 1977). "Indoor soccer season approved". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Chick, Bob (March 29, 1976). "Indoor Kicks May Go Awry". Evening Independent. p. 1-C. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Tierney, Mike (April 3, 1978). "NASL approves official indoor league in 1979". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  5. ^ Tierney, Mike (January 20, 1979). "Rowdies want to come indoors". St. Petersburg Times. p. 3C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  6. ^ Meyer, John (January 28, 1978). "Diplomatic Debut For Jago". Evening Independent. p. 1-C. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  7. ^ Meyer, John (January 30, 1978). "Rowdies' Jago Proves Point". Evening Independent. p. 1-C. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  8. ^ "Tons of snow and ice cave in roof of Hartford Civic Center". The Deseret News. January 18, 1978. p. 1A. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  9. ^ Schneider, Dick (February 1, 1978). "Express Coming To Lakeland May Bring Exhibition Games". Lakeland Ledger. p. 7D. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  10. ^ Tierney, Mike (February 11, 1978). "Rowdies expected to rough up Roughnecks". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  11. ^ Marcia Schallert, editor. (1979). 1979 Indoor Tournament match program. Tampa, FL. Tampa Bay Rowdies. p 32
  12. ^ Chick, Bob (February 2, 1979). "Bayfront's Cooking, NASL Is Smelling". Evening Independent. p. 1-C. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
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