Dan Counce scores twice — the second at 5:43 of overtime — to lift St. Louis University to a 2-1 victory over UCLA in the NCAA Division I championship game at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Robert R. Hermann is born. He will become a leading St. Louis businessman and will influence soccer locally and nationally beginning in the 1960s.

The St. Louis Storm, on break from their Major Soccer League schedule, win the FIFA-sponsored Zurich International New Year’s Indoor Tournament, defeating FC Zurich 4-0 in the championship game

St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Walter Giesler (pictured), the president of the U.S. Soccer Football Association (today’s U.S. Soccer Federation), brings a college bowl game to Sportsman’s Park to decide the national college soccer championship.

The first known mention of women playing soccer in St. Louis appears in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Jan. 2, 1910. The game is played on Dec. 31, 1909, to usher in the new year.

Christian Brothers College rips the Berlin Rangers, reputed to be Canada’s best team, 5-2, at Athletic Park.

St. Louis University successfully completes its mission by reclaiming the NCAA national championship with a 4-2 victory over UCLA in the championship game in Miami. Almost exactly a year earlier, the Billikens lost in the NCAA final to Howard, 3-2, for their first defeat in 45 games.

About 500 fans brave the rain to watch the second international soccer match in St. Louis history. Players representing the Western Canada Football Association (pictured in St. Louis) defeat “the best team St. Louis can put on the field,” 5-3, at Sportsman’s Park.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Jimmy Roe (pictured) is born. Roe will become an inside left and play on the national powerhouse Stix, Baer and Fuller/Central Brewers/St. Louis Shamrocks teams in the 1930s.

Tim Ream (pictured), who makes his living preventing goals, becomes the second St. Louisan to score in the English Premier League when he fires home a goal in the 71st minute for Fulham against Crystal Palace.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Tom Cahill (pictured) is born in New York City. Cahill, who will spend much of his early life in St. Louis, will influence soccer tremendously locally and nationally.

For the first time, the best of St. Louis meets the best of the East in a much-anticipated soccer showdown at Athletic Park, Garrison and North Market Streets. The result is an unsatisfactory 4-4 draw between St. Leo’s of St. Louis and Tacony of Philadelphia on a rain-soaked field where “the mud, in some places ankle deep,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, spoils the match (headline pictured)..

In his first game in six weeks after suffering a kidney injury, goalkeeper Slobo Ilijevski (pictured) is in indoor soccer hall-of-fame form in the Steamers’ 4-1 win over the New York Arrows before 12,130 at the Arena.

St. Louis native Jim Pollihan (pictured) scores the first goal in Major Indoor Soccer League history while playing for the New York Arrows against the Cincinnati Kids in the new league’s first-ever match.

Josh Sargent is named the U.S. Young Male Player of the Year.

With the 20th century about to dawn, Dick Jarrett (pictured), one of the greatest players in the early years of St. Louis soccer, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch what is needed for the sport to grow in the United States.

In an indoor soccer game that has almost everything — a combined 116 shots and 17 goals, a bench-clearing fight, two player ejections and sudden-death overtime — the only thing the St. Louis Steamers lack is a victory. Joe Fink’s shot deflects off Steamers’ defender Sam Bick into the net at 11:45 of overtime as the Philadelphia Fever escape the Checkerdome with a 9-8 victory. Philadelphia’s Bobby Smith and Steamers defender Steve Pecher (pictured) are ejected.

The two top teams in the St. Louis Football Association, the premier league in the city, collide —literally — at Sportsman’s Park. Separated by a single point in the standings, the Shamrocks top St. Teresa’s, 3-1, in a muddy, fight-marred match (league standings pictured).

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).