San Fernando Valley Quakes their trip to Fresno for the playoffs was an unhappy one: they lost 2–0 to BYU Cougars in a semi-final game which saw them reduced to 10 men and in which Franklin suffered a broken arm. Once again Ryan Shaw was the Quakes leading marksman, netting 10 goals, while standout right winger Sean Franklin led the assist sheets with 7. The Quakes had a slightly turbulent offseason, with Sean Franklin, Daniel Paladini and Mike Zaher all departing for Major League Soccer, and team relocating from Granada Hills to a new stadium in nearby Calabasas. Despite impressing during a pre-season friendly
John McEwan (soccer) John McEwan (soccer) John McEwan is a deceased U.S. soccer player who earned two caps, scoring three goals, as a member of the U.S. national team in 1937. McEwan attended Syracuse University where he was a two-year soccer letterman on the school’s soccer team. He was a co-captain and first team All American of the 1932 Orange Men team which went 4-2. In 1935, McEwan scored nine goals for Brooklyn Celtic of the American Soccer League (ASL). That year, he was a member of an ASL All Star team which unofficially represented the U.S. in two games with Scotland. Scotland