April 2 (1916)

The Missouri Athletic Association wins a marathon Municipal League championship game 3-1 over Christian Brothers College, at that time a school for elementary, secondary and college males, before 10,000 fans at Fairground Park. The teams had tied 1-1 in a match called after 90 regulation minutes and four 8-minute overtimes on March 26. Combined with the rematch on April 2, the final to crown the city’s amateur soccer champions requires three hours and 32 minutes to play, said to be the longest soccer match played up to that point in St. Louis soccer history. The game matches two teams of polar opposites. CBC is a team “of which three-fourths are schoolboys, who have plenty of time to train,” while the MAA team is “made up entirely of boys who work from morning to night,” according to Ignatius M. Hipisch in the April 3, 1916, edition of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Playing in the rain on “ground soft and very wet,” Johnny Marre scores what will be the winning goal 32 minutes into the match. Marre’s goal puts the MAA ahead, 2-0. CBC cuts the lead to 2-1 about 12 minutes into the second half, but an own-goal on a deflection off the head of CBC defender Danny Murphy seals the victory for the MAA.