10-478: Stompers or The Stompers may refer to: Sports teams [ edit ] Oakland Stompers , a North American Soccer League team in the 1978 season East Bay FC Stompers , a National Premier Soccer League team Sonoma Stompers , an independent professional baseball team based in Sonoma, California Stompers RFC , a Maltese rugby club St. Catharines Blue Jays ,
20-562: A Canadian minor league baseball renamed the St. Catharines Stompers (1996-1999) Entertainment [ edit ] The Stompers (band) , an American rock band Los Stompers , an Irish music group based in Barcelona, Spain Stompers (toy) , a line of toy trucks and other vehicles See also [ edit ] Stomp (disambiguation) "The Stomper", a ring name of Archie Gouldie ,
30-477: A retired Canadian professional wrestler Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Stompers . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stompers&oldid=949948532 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
40-545: A single appearance for Norwich, and soon signed for Lincoln City , where he made 23 league appearances between 1963 and 1965. After leaving Lincoln, Bracewell played non-league football with Margate , before signing with Bury , where he made one league appearance. Bracewell then spent two seasons in Canada with the Toronto Falcons , and returned briefly to England to play with Rochdale . Bracewell then returned to
50-665: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oakland Stompers The Oakland Stompers were a soccer team based out of Oakland, California that played the 1978 season in the North American Soccer League (NASL). The Stompers played in the Western Division of the American Conference and finished the year with a 12–18 record, in third place and out of playoff contention. At
60-609: The United States. Born in Colne , Lancashire, Bracewell began his career in non-league football with Trawden . He then signed with league club Burnley , but never made a league appearance, and so made his professional debut with Tranmere Rovers in 1959, making 28 league appearances in two seasons. Bracewell then played non-league football with Nelson , and with Canadian side Toronto Italia , before returning to English league football with Norwich City . However, he didn't make
70-788: The end of the 1977 NASL season, Silicon Valley businessman (and former owner of the San Jose Earthquakes ) Milan Mandarić bought the Connecticut Bicentennials and relocated them to Oakland . The club, renamed the Stompers, hired Mirko Stojanović as head coach and signed a 10-year lease at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum , previously home of the NASL's Oakland Clippers in 1967–68. The team signed Shep Messing for $ 100,000 making him
80-515: The highest-paid American soccer player at the time. The club drew 32,104 in their home opener against cross-Bay rivals San Jose Earthquakes on April 2, 1978, with about half of those in attendance being supporters of the visiting team. (At the time, it was the largest crowd ever to see a club soccer match in California.) After eight games and a record of 4-4, the team fired Stojanović and replaced him on an interim basis with Jack Hyde. Hyde
90-540: The season, the team moved to Edmonton , Alberta where they were renamed the Edmonton Drillers . U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame Canada Soccer Hall of Fame Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame Ken Bracewell Ken Bracewell (born 5 October 1936) is an English former professional football player and coach. Bracewell, who played as a full-back , made over 200 league appearances in England, Canada, and
100-481: Was in turn replaced by Ken Bracewell who had previously coached the Denver Dynamos . In July, the team was averaging 12,200 fan in attendance, but ended the season in third place and with a slight dip in attendance, 11,929 fans at seasons end. (The Coliseum was a lonely place in the summer of '78: the Stompers' co-tenants, baseball's Oakland Athletics , attracted just 7,218 fans per home date.) Following
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