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Sweden vs United States international football match report

Date, kick-off time:	Sunday, 20 August 1916, 14:00 (UTC+02:00)
National teams, score:	Sweden - United States 2:3
Competition:	International Friendly
Referee:	Hagbard Vestergaard, Copenhagen / Denmark
Attendance, venue:	15 000, Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm
Goals:	1:0 (7') Konrad Törnkvist, 2:3 (81') Konrad Törnkvist

Sweden national football team line-up in match Nr.37

Managed by selection committee: chairman Frey Svenson
Player	Caps	Age	Club
Frithiof Rudén	1	19	Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm
Valdus Lund	4	21	IFK Göteborg, Göteborg
Henning Svensson	6	24	IFK Göteborg, Göteborg
Ragnar Wicksell	18	23	Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm
Konrad Törnkvist	11	28	IFK Göteborg, Göteborg
Louis Groth	2	25	AIK Solna, Solna
Harry Magnusson	2	22	Örgryte IS, Göteborg
Caleb Schylander	3	21	IFK Göteborg, Göteborg
Karl Gustafsson	22	27	Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm
Erik Hjelm	7	23	IFK Göteborg, Göteborg
Josef Appelgren	6	25	Örgryte IS, Göteborg

Match stats

National team	Players	Average caps	Average age	Clubs	Goals	Cautions	Expulsions
Sweden	11	7.455	24.014	4	2	0	0

Historical data sources

Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), №225, 21.08.1916; Svenska Dagbladet – Historiskt sidarkiv

Comments

mrati Hungary - Other notes posted 04.07.2010 15:26:35

Photo from Match. (link:

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Zsorzsinju Hungary - Other notes posted 18.07.2011 21:31:44

George Tintle; James Robertson, C.H. Spalding; Thomas Murray, Neil Clarke, Clarence Smith; Jimmy Ford, Charles Ellis, John Hemingsley, Tom Swords [c], Harry Cooper
Coach/Manager: Harry Davenport (...)

pieterkooijman Netherlands - Other notes posted 17.08.2011 20:03:25

Coach: Tom Cahill
(...)

wilim Poland - Other notes posted 30.08.2011 19:53:37

Sweden captain: Karl Johan Gustafsson "Köping"
Source: Danmark (1908-1940), Sverige (1908-1940) - IFFHS Book

Soproni Démon Hungary - Additional information posted 07.10.2011 09:23:43

Coach manager
Sweden: Frey Svenson

luciano - posted 27.11.2011 13:18:40

MATCH: 20.08.1916 Sweden - U.S.A. 2:3
U.S.A

luciano - Other notes posted 27.11.2011 13:19:54

USA: Back, f. l. t. r. Charles Ellis, George Tintle, Charles Harry Spalding, Thomas W. Cahill (manager), Walter Burgin, Clarence Smith; Middle, f. l. t. r. James Robertson, Thomas Murray, Neil Clarke, Albert Blakey; Front; f. l. f. r. James Ford, Thomas Swords, John Heminsley, Matthew Diederichsen, Harry Cooper.

Yas054 Poland - Additional information posted 04.02.2013 04:10:04

USA line up:
George Tintle (Brooklyn Celtic FC New York) – (...)

fjfodbold Denmark - Other notes posted 07.07.2013 09:48:32

First goalscorer of US, also reported as C. H. Spalding (link:

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fjfodbold Denmark - Additional information posted 19.10.2017 19:23:42

Antonio Cirino describes the Aug. 20 game against Sweden in U.S. Soccer vs. the World:
(...)

Milosh1983 Serbia - Other notes posted 10.02.2020 17:36:14

club of USA player James M. Robertson
correct club Brooklyn Celtic (link:

)

Milosh1983 Serbia - Other notes posted 10.02.2020 17:37:01

club of USA player Thomas ’Tommy’ Swords
correct club Fall River Rovers (link:

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Sweden vs United States post-match head-to-head

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals	Points/Match
1	0	0	1	2 - 3	0.000

Sweden matches

Previous match:

Friendly International

Sweden vs Norway 6-0

Stockholm, Sunday 2 July 1916

Next match:

Friendly International

Norway vs Sweden 0-0

Kristiania, Sunday 1 October 1916

Sweden international record

Sweden top scorers

1. Karl Gustafsson (1908 - 1916) - 17 goals
2. Ivar Svensson (1912 - 1916) - 15 goals
3. August Ekroth (1911 - 1914) - 10 goals
4. Erik Börjesson (1908 - 1914) - 10 goals
... Konrad Törnkvist (1916) - 2 goals

(correct as of August 20, 1916)

Sweden best scorers

Brief match report

Sun. 20 Aug 1916
Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm
Sweden 2-3 United States
Goals: Törnkvist 7, Törnkvist 81

Sweden: Rudén, Lund, Svensson, Wicksell, Törnkvist, Groth, Magnusson, Schylander, Gustafsson (c), Hjelm, Appelgren. Managed by selection committee Svenson.

Att: 15 000
Ref: Vestergaard (Denmark)