On a banner day for U.S. soccer, the Ben Millers defeat Fore River of Quincy, Mass., 2-1 in the National Challenge Cup final at High School Field, Grand and Laclede avenues. The Cup title is the first of 90 national soccer championships won by St. Louis teams.

Club Nacional de Football of Uruguay defeats the St. Louis All-Stars, 4-1, before 6,500 fans at St. Louis U. Field. The winners include nine players from the Uruguay team that won the 1924 Olympic gold medal, considered the world championship at a time when there was no World Cup.

Joe Simpkins Ford of St. Louis wins its second U.S. Open Cup championship in three years by gaining a 1-1 tie with Ponta Delgada in Fall River, Mass. The title is decided on goal differential over a two-game series. Simpkins won the opener 2-0 in St. Louis on April 22.

Kutis stuns one of Europe’s best, Nuernburg of West Germany, 3-2, under the lights at Oakland Stadium. Nuernberg, a first-division team with nine national titles to its credit, includes Max Morlock, whose six goals tied him for second among the goal-scoring leaders in the 1954 World Cup won by West Germany. Morlock amazes the crowd with a spectacular goal to give the Germans a 2-0 lead. Rich Meisemann and Bob Rooney score to tie the game, and Bill Looby’s second-half goal is the winner.

Chester Kowalewski keeps a lid on the goal for Kutis in the U.S. Open Cup semifinals. But the Los Angeles Maccabees, “applying relentless pressure, finally solved the goalkeeper wizardry” of Kowlewski in the final minutes to score a 1-0 victory in Los Angeles.

The St. Louis Stars stun England’s Coventry City, 2-1, at Mullally Field. Coventry City had finished sixth in England’s First Division, today’s Premier League. The victory is the first ever for a St. Louis team over an English club. Tom Bokern scores the winner with just 30 seconds left.

In what will be described as “a travesty” by U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame journalist Dent McSkimming in the next day’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Beadling of Pittsburgh pulls off a miracle 5-1 win over Simpkins Ford of St. Louis in the U.S. Amateur Cup finals.

The United Soccer Leagues awards a franchise to St. Lous Scott Gallagher Soccer Club. The team, St. Louis Football Club, will begin play in 2015 in the USL’s third-division PRO league.

Machel Millwood’s goal at 6:33 of overtime lifts the Baltimore Blast past the St. Louis Steamers to win the MISL championship before 16,061 fans at the Savvis Center (today’s Enterprise Center).

Rookie Will Bruin scores a hat track for the Houston Dynamo against D.C. United as the Dynamo win, 4-1. Fellow St. Louisan Brad Davis assists on Bruin’s second and third goals.

St. Louis soccer fans read good news and bad news in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. First, the good news: St. Louis has been chosen as the site of the National Challenge Cup final on May 9. The game to decide the national championship of soccer will match St. Louis’s Ben Millers, comprised entirely of homegrown talent, against the foreign-laden Fore River F.C. of Quincy, Mass.The bad news: Admission will be $1.10 for adults and 55 cents for children, “the highest ever charged here for soccer,” according to the Post-Dispatch.

Daryl Doran is named to the Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame. His 827 professional indoor games played are the most in U.S. history. He scored 419 goals in his indoor career, and coached the St. Louis Ambush to the 1995 NPSL championship.

A heartbreaking finish spoils a dominant performance by the St. Louis Shamrocks in the first game of the finals of the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup) against German American FC of Philadelphia. A last-minute goal by the German Americans results in a 2-2 tie. Seeking their fourth consecutive Open Cup title, the Shamrocks will lose the second game and the cup when the German Americans win 3-0 in Philadelphia on May 3.

The Ambush wins St. Louis’s first and only pro soccer national league championship, indoors or outdoors, rebounding from an 11-0 deficit to beat the Harrisburg Heat 14-11 in the fourth and deciding match of the NPSL best-of-seven championship series at the Farm Show Arena in Harrisburg, Pa.

The professional St. Louis League champion Ben Millers, National Challenge Cup finalists of 1926, come from behind to squeak past the Muny League amateur champion Killarneys, 2-1, on a cold, snowy day at St. Louis University Field. Jimmy McCarthy (pictured) scores a goal after earlier missing a penalty kick for Killarney.

The National Challenge Cup (today’s U.S. Open Cup) returns to St. Louis after an 11-year absence, thanks to Stix, Baer & Fuller defeating the New York Americans, 2-1, at Starlight Park in the Bronx. Willie McLean (pictured) scores one goal and assists on the other.

Granite City’s Ruben Mendoza (pictured) makes headlines as Kutis defeats the Chicago Eagles, 3-1, in Chicago in the first game of the Western Final of U.S. Amateur Cup. Mendoza scores two goals, then becomes involved in an altercation that leads to a near-riot of players and fans near the end of the match.

Paul Dueker’s stellar performance in goal is not enough as defending U.S. Open Cup champion Kutis loses to Monterrey of Mexico, 1-0, in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions Cup at the Soccer Park.

Kutis earns rave reviews as it beats Hakoah of New York, 3-1, to capture the U.S. Open Cup in a two-game final decided on total goals. Kutis won the first game, 3-0, at Public Schools Stadium in St. Louis on March 31.

The St. Louis Archdiocesan Catholic Youth Council reports that the CYC is fielding 352 soccer teams with 6,620 players in eight age groups. The St. Louis CYC will grow to be the largest soccer organization in the United States by 1966 with 447 teams.