November 1 (1967)

St. Louisan Mike Villa scores 10 goals as Quincy College blasts Notre Dame, 16-2, in Quincy. The Vianney High School product pushes his season goal-scoring total to 32. Villa finishes the season with still-standing school records of 44 goals and 17 assists. Villa and the many other St. Louisans on the Hawks’ roster help Quincy win the NAIA national title. The Hawks defeat another team with many St. Louisans, Rockhurst, 3-1, in the final with Villa scoring twice. He is named the nation’s top forward for the 1967 season by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association and is runner-up for the first-ever Hermann Trophy, awarded to the nation’s top college soccer player. Villa still holds Quincy’s career goal-scoring record with 94. One of the top all-around athletes in St. Louis history, Villa plays basketball and baseball, as well as soccer, in each of his four years at Quincy. He will be named to the NAIA Hall of Fame. He will score the game’s only goal in the 1972 U.S. Amateur Cup final, won by Busch over New Bedford Portuguese. He will go on to be one of St. Louis’s all-time leading high school soccer coaches. His Assumption, Vianney and Triad boys’ teams will post 675 victories and will win seven state titles (all at Vianney). Combined with his record as girls’ coach at Triad, Villa will retire after the 2013 season with 945 wins (third-most among St. Louis high school coaches) and eight state championships.