May 29 (1957)

Glasgow Celtic gets a tougher-than-expected fight from the St. Louis CYC All-Stars, but still prevails, 3-0, at Public Schools Stadium during its late-spring series of friendlies in North America. Celtic, Scottish League Cup champion and fifth-place finisher in Scottish Division One during the 1956-57 season, holds the CYC stars shotless. But Celtic has trouble solving the CYC’s defense until late in the game. CYC captain and left fullback Bob Fitzgerald shuts down Celtic’s outside right and Scottish international Bobby Collins. Ahead 1-0 late in the game, Celtic moves Collins to inside right to avoid Fitzgerald, and Collins responds with two goals. Meanwhile, Jack Dueker shuts out Celtic center forward Neal Mochan, who played on Scotland’s 1954 World Cup squad. “He was in every way a fine player,” Mochan says of Dueker to St. Louis Post-Dispatch and U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame journalist Dent McSkimming. “I, for one, was quite surprised to find a center halfback here so effective.” The appearance is Celtic’s first in St. Louis. The team will return exactly nine years later and will smash another squad of CYC All-Stars, 6-1.