Megan Wolf scores on the deciding penalty kick to lift Washington University to the NCAA Division III women’s championship in a shootout over five-time titlist Messiah in Salem, Va.

St. Louis University and Michigan State are declared NCAA co-champions when the scoreless championship game is called late in the first half because of unplayable conditions at Francis Field. The match ends when Guy Busch (pictured), one of several St. Louis players for Michigan State, slides head-first into a goal post and is knocked unconscious.

The Steamers, the first completely indoor professional soccer franchise to represent St. Louis, lose their first game, 5-4, to the Cleveland Force at Richfield Coliseum. Defender Carl Rose (pictured) scores the Steamers’ first goal at 3:26 of the first quarter.

Exactly six years after losing in the NAIA final to Davis & Elkins, 1-0, in five overtimes, Quincy College smashes Davis & Elkins, 6-0, in the NAIA championship game at Koch Park in Florissant.

Quincy College collects two of its record 11 NAIA men’s soccer championships, defeating Canada’s Simon Fraser both times in the final by 1-0 scores. In 1975, future St. Louis Steamers forward Emilio John (pictured) scores off a corner kick with 30 seconds to play.

On a day for a trifecta of national championships, Florissant Valley wins the NJCAA title in 1970 and 1981, and Quincy takes the NAIA crown in 1981. The 1970 game lasts 11 overtimes and ends on a goal from Tim Rooney.

Florissant Valley and Meramec capture NJCAA championships. Flo Valley takes its third consecutive title in 1971 by defeating Monroe of Rochester, N.Y., 3-2. In 1976, Meramec upsets undefeated Mercer County of Trenton, N.J., 3-2.

The newly formed Sodality League (Nov. 26, 1893 standings pictured), the forerunner of today’s St. Louis Catholic Youth Council, is hailed as “the best managed organization of its kind in St. Louis,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The soccer league consists of seven teams.

Lenny Deschler scores twice as Meramec Community College completes an unlikely run to a national title with a 3-0 victory over Miami-Dade North in the NJCAA championship game.

Fran Lemons ends an epic battle between St. Louis teams as Florissant Valley prevails, 2-1, over Meramec in seven overtimes in the NJCAA championship game in Miami.

Milivoje Cecaric heads in a corner kick for the game’s only goal in the 61st minute as Lindenwood defeats Auburn University-Montgomery in the NAIA championship game in Olathe, Kan.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis (1981 team pictured) loses on penalty kicks to Connecticut in the third-place game of the first-ever women’s college soccer national championship tournament.

Chris Cacciatore heads in the winning goal (pictured in dark jersey scoring the goal) in the 66th minute as Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, the 1975 NCAA Division I runner-up, tops St. Louis U., 2-1, in the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinals on a cold and windy afternoon at SIUE.

Freshman Kelly Drury (pictured) scores all the goals as Florissant Valley defeats Mercer County, 4-0, in the NJCAA women’s national championship game in Trenton, N.J.

Rhamon Silva scores in OT to give Jefferson College of Hillsboro, Mo., a 2-1 victory over Mercer in the NJCAA men’s Division I national championship game. Jefferson head coach and St. Louis native Stephen Peck Jr (pictured) is named coach of the year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Kris Kazmarek’s 65th-minute goal on a free kick from Mary Moynihan lifts Florissant Valley Community College to the NJCAA women’s national soccer championship, beating State University of New York-Farmingdale, 1-0, in Trenton, N.J.

Galt of Ontario, Canada, defeats St. Rose of St. Louis, 4-0, at Francis Field to win the “gold medal” in the Olympics held concurrently with the St. Louis World’s Fair.

CityPark hosts its first-ever game, a friendly between St. Louis City2 and Bayer Leverkusen of the German Bundesliga. Bayer Leverkusen wins, 3-0, before a capacity crowd.

Granite City South High School wins its fifth consecutive Illinois boys’ state soccer championship, defeating Darien Hinsdale South, 5-1, in Palatine, Ill.

St. Louis University freshman and future Bundesliga star Vedad Ibisevic scores four goals in the first half as St. Louis U. defeats the University of Alabama-Birmingham, 5-1, in the semifinals of the Conference USA tournament in Memphis.