Two goals in 40 seconds just 10 minutes into the game are all the offense St. Louis University needs in a 2-0 win over UCLA at Francis Field. Tom Malle (pictured) assists on both goals

Christian Brothers College, then a school for elementary, high school and college males that fields highly successful soccer teams, says it likely will drop college football after suffering serious financial losses in the two preceding seasons. “If the college drops the gridiron sport, it probably will plunge on in soccer,” according to the Sept. 1, 1915, issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

St. Louis native Tim Rooney gains his 400th men’s junior college coaching victory as Lewis & Clark blanks Lincoln Land, 6-0. The landmark victory comes a year after Rooney notched his 400th women’s junior college coaching victory.

The St. Louis Soccer Park hosts the Women’s Professional Soccer All-Star Game before 4,115 fans. The WPS All-Stars, who include St. Louis Athletica players Lori Chalupny, Eniola Aluko, Tina Ellertson and Hope Solo, defeat Swedish champion Umeå IK, 4-2.

St. Louis native Becky Sauerbrunn plays the entire match as 49,504 fans, the largest crowd ever for a U.S. Women’s National Team friendly, sees the USWNT blank Portugal, 4-0, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

The St. Louis duo of Taylor Twellman (right) and Steve Ralston (left) revs up the New England Revolution in its 3-1 Major League Soccer victory over the Colorado Rapids at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. In his first MLS season, Twellman scores twice against the Rapids. Ralston assists on Twellman’s second goal.

St. Louis University’s two-time All-American, senior Mark Santel, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “We’ve got (freshman) Brian McBride, who’ll score.” Will he ever. The Chicago native (pictured) will become the Billikens’ all-time leading scorer, then have a stellar career in the English Premier League and with the U.S. Men’s National Team in a career that will lead to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame.

The St. Louis Stars lose, 2-1, to the New York Cosmos in the NASL championship game on the rain-soaked artificial turf at Hofstra Stadium on Long Island. Two of the three goals are questionable, and another that would have tied the match in its waning moments is ruled offsides.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Bill Looby scores both goals for the USA in a 3-2 loss to Iceland in an international friendly in Iceland. Looby, one of the greatest goal scorers in the history of St. Louis soccer, tallies a goal in each half.

St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Jimmy Roe heads for New York for his first tour as a member of the U.S. Men’s National Team. Roe had been a key player on St. Louis teams that reached six consecutive U.S. Open Cup finals from 1932-37. But Roe injures his knee before the first game of the tour, ending his career at age 28.

St. Louisan Ruth Harker takes over as goalkeeper in the second half for starter Kim Wyant in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s 3-1 loss to England in the Mundialito (“little World Cup”) tournament in Caorle, Italy. The tournament, considered the unofficial World Cup for women, marks the first games ever played by the USWNT.

St. Louisans score all the goals as the United States tops Barbados, 3-1, in a first-round Olympic qualifying match in Bridgetown, Barbados. Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Al Trost, John Carenza and Buzz Demling (pictured from left to right) tally the goals.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Jimmy Dunn is born. Dunn’s goal will clinch the first of 90 national championships for St. Louis teams. Playing for the Ben Millers, Dunn will break a 1-1 tie with a goal in the 63rd minute in the final of the 1920 National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) against Fore River, Mass.

Major League Soccer awards a franchise to MLS4TheLou, a local ownership group consisting of representatives of the Taylor and Kavanaugh families.

Vedad Ibisevic kicks off the Bundesliga season with a bang, scoring the game’s first goal in the 16th minute and last goal in the 76th minute as newly promoted 1899 Hoffenheim beats Energie Cottbus, 3-0.

The St. Louis Stars reach the NASL championship game with a 2-0 semifinal victory over the Rochester Lancers at Busch Stadium. Englishman John Sewell and St. Louisan Gene Geimer score.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch breaks the news that St. Louis will be awarded a Major League Soccer expansion franchise.

After studying 6,000 fan suggestions, St. Louis’s new MLS team christens itself St. Louis CITY SC. “SC” carries a double meaning: “Soccer Club” and “Soccer Capital.”

In his first appearance for the U.S. National Team, future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Al Trost (right) scores on an assist from fellow St. Louisan and St. Louis Stars teammate Gene Geimer (left) as the United States surprises 1972 Olympic champion Poland, 1-0, in a friendly in New Britain, Conn.

The St. Louis Steamers add St. Louisan Perry Van Der Beck, the 1985 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year, but lose their 1986-87 most valuable player, St. Louisan Mark Frederickson (pictured), on waivers.