10,664 fans at The Arena see the rarest of scores in indoor soccer as the St. Louis Steamers beat the Baltimore Blast 1-0. Former U.S. National Teamer Steve Pecher (pictured) has the only goal late in the third quarter off a pass from Don Ebert.

The Kickers spring a big surprise on favored White Star in the Missouri Amateur Cup semifinals by notching a 4-1 upset in the mud at Magdalen Field before an overflow crowd. Paul Pisani (pictured) scores twice.

With a trip to the semifinals of the National Challenge Cup on the line, Stix Baer & Fuller defeats the Andersons, 4-1, at Sportsman’s Park. Stix is heavily laden with top players who fled the eastern United States, where the Depression had hurt the sport badly. Stix will go on to win the National Challenge Cup championship .

The Cycling Club, one of the top teams in St. Louis at the turn of the century, wages a memorable battle with the West Ends and wins, 5-3, in an Association Football League game at Athletic Park, Garrison and North Market streets. The Cycling Club features future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Benny Govier and former Welsh international Dick Jarrett.

The Noels defeat Carondelet Sunday Morning Athletic Club (CSMAC), 4-3, on an overtime goal by Frank Pastor (pictured) in the Municipal League semifinals at Fairground Park. Without a professional league in St. Louis since the folding of the 30-year-old St. Louis League in 1938, the Muny League fills the bill as the main attraction for hungry St. Louis soccer fans by fielding the best players in St. Louis, including future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famers.

The St. Louis Steamers, in their fifth season of existence, surpass the 1.5-million mark in their all-time attendance when a crowd of 13,112 sees the Steamers lose 7-4 to the Cleveland Force at the Arena.

The Ben Millers’ hopes of winning the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) are dimmed considerably in a 7-2 loss to the Chicago Bricklayers in the first of the best-of-three-games Western final. The Bricklayers will win the second game, 1-0, on March 15, but will lose in the finals to the Fall River (Mass.) Marksmen. Ironically, many Marksmen will migrate to St. Louis and will form the backbone of St. Louis teams that will win three consecutive Cups starting with the 1932-33 season.

Seventeen-year-old Lori Chalupny earns the first cap of her career in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s 1-0 loss to Italy. Her eventual cap total of 105 will be more than any other player, male or female, in St. Louis soccer history except for current USWNT player Becky Sauerbrunn, who has 214.

Simpkins Ford literally fights its way into the U.S. Open Cup semifinals by overwhelming the Milwaukee Sports Club, 6-2, in Milwaukee. Simpkins’ John Galimberti (pictured) and Milwaukee’s Adam Nothels duke it out and are tossed from the game midway through the second half while some of the 20 Simpkins fans on hand engage in a fistfight with the home crowd.

Calling it “my worst game in two years,” goalkeeper Slobo Ilijevski shows some rust in his first match after issuing a play-me-or-trade-me ultimatum. But the St. Louis Steamers rally from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Denver Avalanche, 7-5, before 16,662 fans at the Checkerdome. The game’s No. 1 star goes to Steamers defender Carl Rose (pictured), who scores a goal and adds an assist.

St. Louis CITY scores a rousing 3-1 victory over Charlotte in CITY’s first-ever MLS home match before a sellout crowd. CITY, picked to be an MLS cellar-dweller, improves its record to 2-0-0. Read more about this game, and the record-setting first season for CITY in “Year One” by Dave Lange, available now from Reedy Press.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Preki scores a goal and another future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer, Fernando Clavijo (pictured), has two assists in the St. Louis Storm’s victory over the Tacoma Stars.

Three goals from Tim Knox sends undefeated CBC to a 4-0 victory over St. Louis U. High in the St. Louis District Class A championship game at Fairground Park. The district championship is the ultimate accomplishment in St. Louis high school soccer at the time. There will be no Missouri state soccer championship competition until the 1968-69 season.

St. Teresa (pictured in 1895), the city’s best team of the 1890s, wins its fourth and last consecutive city championship by scoring a dramatic 1-0 win over Diels in a showdown before 2,500 fans

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the professional St. Louis League has voted to wear numbers on their jerseys, a relatively new practice in soccer. Although the newspaper writes that “it will be several weeks before the innovation is put into practice,” one team, the Hoovers, says it will wear numbers the following Sunday in its St. Louis League match with the Ben Millers.

Under the headline “RIOT AT SPORTSMAN’S PARK,” the next day’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch will call a game between the Cappels and the Cyclists “the most disgraceful riot ever seen on a St. Louis football field.” The Cyclists win the fight-marred match, 7-1.

Billy Gonsalves, one of the greatest U.S.-born players of all time, makes his debut with Stix, Baer and Fuller of St. Louis. Gonsalves will play a key role in the success of three-time U.S. Open Cup champion Stix/Central Brewers, scoring 101 goals over five seasons. The native of Portsmouth, R.I., will be named to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame after a 25-year career in which he is alleged to have scored more than 1,000 goals.

CITY makes St. Louis soccer history with a stunning MLS debut at Austin. With the game tied 2–2 and 4 minutes to play, striker João Klauss scores on a counterattack for the game-winner. Read more about this game, and the record-setting first season for CITY in “Year One” by Dave Lange, available now from Reedy Press.

While the United States fights on the World War I battlefields of France, the St. Louis League continues its weekly Sunday doubleheaders. On Feb. 24, the Ben Millers tie Innisfails 1-1 and remain in first place, while St. Leo’s and the Naval Reserves battle to a 2-2 standoff (headline shown from Feb. 25 St. Louis Globe-Democrat).

St. Louis Steamers forward Tony Glavin, whose several nicknames include “the Motor Man,” lives up to the nickname by driving the Western Division to a 9-5 win over the East in the MISL All-Star Game in Buffalo, N.Y. He then drives a 1983 Ford Ranger off the Memorial Auditorium floor, his prize for being the game’s MVP with three goals and two assists.