1978 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season

Tampa Bay Rowdies 1978 indoor soccer season

Tampa Bay Rowdies1978 indoor season

Owner|  George Strawbridge, Jr.
General manager|  Chas Serednesky, Jr
Manager|  Gordon Jago
Stadium| Bayfront Center
Top goalscorer| League:
All:
Derek Smethurst (14 goals)
Highest home attendance| 6,410
(Feb. 3 vs. Diplomats) &
(March 10 vs. Kicks)
Lowest home attendance| 2,600
(May 3 vs. Norwich City)
Average home league attendance| 5,641

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

## Overview

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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

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### Roster

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No.  | Position  | Player  | Nation

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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

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

## Competitions

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### Results summaries

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### Match reports

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Washington Diplomats v Tampa Bay Rowdies January 28, 1978 1|  Washington Diplomats | 7–6 (OT)|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | Washington, D.C.

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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 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]

Washington Diplomats v Tampa Bay Rowdies January 29, 1978 2|  Washington Diplomats | 3–11|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | Washington, D.C.

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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

Tampa Bay Rowdies v Washington Diplomats February 3, 1978 3|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | 6–5|  Washington Diplomats | St. Petersburg, Florida

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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

Rochester Lancers v Tampa Bay Rowdies February 5, 1978 4|  Rochester Lancers | Canceled|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | Hartford, Connecticut

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Cancelled due to roof collapse |  | Report |  | Stadium: Hartford Civic Center Coliseum
Note: Cancelled due to roof collapse.

Tampa Bay Rowdies v Tulsa Roughnecks February 11, 1978 5|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | 7–3|  Tulsa Roughnecks | St. Petersburg, Florida

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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

Tulsa Roughnecks v Tampa Bay Rowdies February 14, 1978 6|  Tulsa Roughnecks | 6–11|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | Tulsa, Oklahoma

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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

Tampa Bay Rowdies v Dallas Tornado February 18, 1978 7|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | 7–3|  Dallas Tornado | St. Petersburg, Florida

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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

Tampa Bay Rowdies v Minnesota Kicks March 10, 1978 8|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | 11–2|  Minnesota Kicks | St. Petersburg, Florida

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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

Tampa Bay Rowdies v Norwich City May 3, 1978 9 Int’l friendly|  Tampa Bay Rowdies | 10–11 (OT)|  Norwich City | St. Petersburg, Florida

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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 63:43' (Suggett) | Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 2,384[12]
Referee: Sam Homich

## Statistics

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### Scoring

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

Player  | GP  | G  | A  | Pts

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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

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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

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Winston DuBose | 7 | 428 | 111 | 35 | 4.91 | 5 | 2
Paul Hammond | 1 | 60 | 11 | 5 | 5.00 | 1 | 0

## Player movement

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## See also

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* 1978 team indoor stats

## References

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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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