Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Bob Annis is born. He will be one of six St. Louisans on the 1950 U.S. World Cup team that defeats England, 1-0. He will help Simpkins Ford win the 1948 and 1950 U.S. Open Cups.

St. Louisan Alyssa Mautz scores the first two goals of the game as the Chicago Red Stars shoot to a 5-0 National Women’s Soccer League win over Sky Blue at Toyota Park outside Chicago.

Matt Diedrichsen plays for the All-American Team in a tie with Norway during the team’s tour of Norway and Sweden. The team is considered the first U.S. National Team. Diedrichsen is the only St. Louisan on the team. His appearance against Norway is recognized as his only cap for the United States.

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.

The St. Louis Athletica lose, 1-0, to Sky Blue FC in the Women’s Professional Soccer semifinals before 5,064 fans at the Soccer Park. Ya’el Averbuch scores the lone goal. Athletica goalkeeper Hope Solo (pictured) is otherwise unbeatable, making two remarkable saves to keep the score close.

Lori Chalupny breaks a 1-1 tie with a goal in the 44th minute against Japan in the Olympic semifinals in Beijing. The United States goes on to win, 4-2.

Playing through an injury suffered earlier in the match, St. Louis Stars’ goalkeeper Peter Bonetti gives up only one goal, but it’s enough to extinguish the Stars in the NASL semifinals against the Portland Timbers.