Tom McCabe

Tom McCabe is the award-winning author of Miracle on High Street: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict’s Prep School (Fordham University Press, 2010) and the co-writer and co-producer of SOCCERTOWN, USA, an American soccer documentary, which received the Audience Award at last year’s Kicking+Screening film festival. Since 2007 he has been an adjunct professor in the History Department at Rutgers University-Newark, where he teaches courses on Newark, the United States, and soccer. Previously, Dr. McCabe served as an administrator, teacher, and coach at St. Benedict’s for more than 15 years. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript on the American Football Association, the oldest FA outside Britain. Born and bred in the Garden State, he played college soccer at Princeton University, and while he still plays, it now usually takes his body a few days to recover. He tweets @TomMcCabe5.

Bio May 2020