ROGUES PRESS PASS, 1978

Press pass issued for the first Rogues home game, April 8, 1978.

ROGUES vs FURY NEWS ARTICLE, 1978

35 YEARS AGO TODAY...

35 years ago today,  April 8, 1978, the Memphis Rogues played their first home game at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, losing to the Philadelphia Fury 3-2 in overtime.  The photo above shows the Rogues' Neil Smillie moving past Fury defender John Dempsey.

KEY MAGAZINE, 1979

 

Jimmy Husband featured on the cover of KEY Magazine in 1979.

EDDIE McCREADIE, 1978

 Coach Eddie McCreadie gives overtime instructions to the troops in the first Rogues home game against Philadelphia.  In the end the Fury came out on top 3-2.

ROGUES vs FURY, 1978

ALAN BIRCHENALL, 1978

Alan Birchenall (R) gets tangled up with the Fury's Pat Fidelia as Memphis' John Faulkner (5) looks on. The game was played at Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia, April 22, 1978 and saw the home side defeat the Rogues 2-1.

ROGUES vs FURY, APRIL 22, 1978

ROGUES LINE-UP:
Burns, Thomson, Faulkner, Beal, D'Agostino, Smillie, Field, McCully, Husband, Morhmann, Birchenall
SUBS USED:
Stride, Hourne
FURY LINE-UP:
Cryder, Dempsey, Straub, O'Brien, Byrne, P., Glavin, Byrne, E., McCurdy, Osgood, Reice, Bragg
SUBS USED;
Fidelia
SCORE:
Philadelphia-2 (Glavin, McCurdy)
Rogues-1 (Field)
ATTENDANCE:
6,177
GROUND:
Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia, PA

ROGUES vs FURY, APRIL 8, 1978

ROGUES Line-up:
Burns, Thomson, Faulkner, Beal, D'Agostino, Smillie, Bennett, O'Neill, Field, McCully, Husband
Subs used: None
FURY Line-up:
Miller, Cryder, Dempsey, Straub, O'Brien, P. Byrne, Glavin, E. Byrne, McCurdy, Osgood, Reice
Subs used: Trevis, Kempf
Score:
Rogues-2 (Field, McCully)
Fury-3 (Dempsey, Trevis, P. Byrne (OT)
Attendance: 17,251
Ground: Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis