A crowd of 6,200 sees what is believed to be a first in St. Louis: indoor soccer. The Arena, which opened on Sept. 23, 1929, plays host to the match. A squad of all-stars from the professional St. Louis League defeats an aggregation of foreign-born players from southern Illinois, 1-0 (lineups pictured).

The disintegration of one of the greatest teams in St. Louis soccer history accelerates when Alex McNab (pictured) asks the U.S. Football Association (today’s U.S. Soccer Federation) to declare him a free agent. McNab is one of several future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famers who helped the Stix/Central Brewers/Shamrocks team reach six consecutive finals (1932-37) and three straight championships (1933-35) of the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup).

The professional St. Louis Soccer League says it probably will call Chicago’s bluff in a dispute over gate receipts and cancel negotiations to have the Hyde Park Blues, one of Chicago’s top teams, play two matches at Athletic Park in St. Louis on Sunday, Jan. 1, and Monday, Jan. 2.

The St. Louis Steamers play their first-ever Major Indoor Soccer League home game and sell out the Checkerdome. A crowd of 18,005 sees the Steamers lose, 5-4, to the Hartford Hellions. Emilio Romero (pictured) scores twice for the Steamers.

In a replay of the previous season’s city championship game, St. Teresa’s (pictured during the 1894-95 season) defeats Diels, 1-0, in a St. Louis Association Foot Ball League match before “one of the largest crowds that ever attended a game in this city,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A decade after bringing a team of British all-stars to St. Louis who profoundly affected the game here, Fred Milnes (pictured in 1909) returns and assesses the progress of the sport in St. Louis since his last visit.

The North American Soccer League’s premier team, the New York Cosmos, selects Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville forward Don Ebert as the overall No. 1 pick in the NASL draft.

Boys’ high school soccer in St. Louis gains momentum. The winter of 1930-31 will see six St. Louis high schools fielding soccer teams, according to a column by future U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame journalist Dent McSkimming in the Dec. 10, 1930, issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (Image shows McSkimming’s column logo.)

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville wins the first-ever NCAA College Division championship in 1972 and the last NCAA Division I championship by a St. Louis team in 1979.

In 1973, Kevin Missey scores twice and Mark LeGrand adds another as the University of Missouri-St. Louis wins the NCAA Division II championship with 3-0 win over California State-Fullerton at Springfield, Mass. Fifty-one years later, Washington University’s women win the NCAA Division III championship by the same score, 3-0, over William Smith in Las Vegas.

St. Louis University wins its fourth NCAA championship with a 3-0 defeat of Navy at New Brunswick, N.J.

After what head coach Harry Keough calls “a little get-together at the half,” St. Louis University scores four times in the second half to defeat San Francisco, 4-0, at San Jose, Calif., for the Billikens’ seventh NCAA soccer championship. Forty-six years later, Washington University’s women wn their second consecutive NCAA Division III championship with a 2-1 victory over Emory.

St. Louis University wins its eighth NCAA championship by defeating UCLA, 1-0, in the final before 8,000 fans at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

St. Louis University wins its fifth NCAA soccer championship with a bitterly fought 1-0 win over Michigan State before 10,000 fans at Francis Field.

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.