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[edit]

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[edit]

Roster[edit]

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[edit]

Competitions[edit]

Results summaries[edit]

Match reports[edit]

January 28, 1978 1 Washington Diplomats 7–6 (OT) Tampa Bay Rowdies Washington, D.C.
8:00 PM Welch 0:52' (Garber)
Welch 3:57' (Pringle)
Welch 4:16'
Garber 20:18' (Steele)
Garber 22:24' (Steele)
Garber 55:30' (Steele, Demkowski)
Askew gold-colored soccer ball 63:04'  (Demkowski)		 Report Smethurst 2:11' (Bandov)
Smethurst 20:36' (Marsh)
Alston 25:15' (Fink)
Smethurst 28:14'
Smethurst 40:19' (Quaraishi)
Fink 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 42:52'
Garber 55:47' (Darrell)
Steele 57:24' (Welch)		 Report Crudo 10:48' (Marsh)
Fink 14:32' (Smethurst)
Wegerle 20:25'
Fink 21:25' (Quaraishi)
Quraishi 30:39' (Crudo)
St. Lot 31:26' (Wegerle)
Quraishi 36:23'
Fink 37:57'
Quraishi 40:46'
Marsh 46:27'
Marsh 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 20:08' (Marsh)
Lindsay 25:10' (Quraishi)
Lindsay 28:36' (Marsh)
Auguste 53:31' (Marsh, Smethurst)
Smethurst 54:24'
Crudo 57:10' (Alston)		 Report Welch 3:13'
Askew 37:20' (Welch)
Steele 43:00'
Darrell 44:13' (Garber)
Welch 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 4:29' (Lindsay)
McLeod 13:58'
Fink 26:15'
Quraishi 29:59' (St. Lot)
Fink 30:29' (Eagan)
Wegerle 41:05'
McLeod 49:38' (Eagan)		 Report A
Report B		 Dovedon 7:01'
García 8:34' (Stamenkovic)
Ferrel 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 2:27'
Molnár 16:25'
Ferrel 25:23' (Stamenkovic)
Molnár 46:04' (Dovedan)
McKeown 52:25' (Dovedan)
Molnár 58:53'		 Report McLeod 7:54' (Crudo)
Wegerle 5:17' (Eagan)
Smethurst 7:02'
Fink 9:05' (Wegerle)
Lindsay 13:11' (Wegerle)
Smethurst 33:07' (Marsh)
Smethurst 34:22' (Connell)
Smethurst 41:29' (Bandov)
St. Lot 53:34' (Bandov)
Marsh 54:51' (Smethurst)
Smethurst 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 15:56' (Bandov)
Smethurst 29:45' (Marsh)
Marsh 42:50' (Eagan)
Marsh 43:37'
McLeod 45:49' (Bandov)
Smethurst 51:49' (Marsh)
McLeod 53:14' (Eagan)		 Report Newman 19:37' (Ryan)
Newman 23:50' (Ryan)
Stahl 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 3:49' (Marsh)
Eagan 4:25' (Fink)
Marsh 11:22'
Eagan 12:46' (Alston)
Alston 14:18'
Alston 20:40' (Marsh)
Eagan 45:00' (Alston)
Marsh 52:10' (Fink)
Wegerle 56:39' (Quraishi)
Wegerle 58:51' (Marsh)
Fink 59:57'		 Report Willey 8:10' (Hamilton)
Vujkovic 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 11:20'
Fink 18:56' (Marsh)
McLeod 19:23' (Papandrea)
Wegerle 24:45'
Bandov 27:40' (Fink)
McLeod 39:57' (Fink)
Marsh 50:05' (Eagan)
Connell 53:48' (Marsh)
Marsh 54:07' (Connell)
Robb 59:44'		 Report 1
Report 2		 Sainty 17:55' (Suggett)
Sainty 24:16' (Bond)
Ryan 25:18' (Sainty)
Peters 26:21'
Peters 30:45' (Nightengale)
Ryan 33:58'
Suggett 34:58'
Sainty 41:28'
Peters 53:14' (Sainty)
Suggett 59:32' (Ryan)
Peters gold-colored soccer ball 63:43'  (Suggett)		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 2,384[12]
Referee: Sam Homich

Statistics[edit]

Scoring[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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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