1978 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season

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

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 →

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
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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Competitions

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Results summaries

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Match reports

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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   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   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
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
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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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.