Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame journalist Dent McSkimming (pictured) covers a second-round National Challenge Cup match between Natural Set Up and Schumacher’s at Walsh Stadium, 5224 Oakland Ave. McSkimming writes his usual blunt account the next day in one of his legendary stories that appear every Monday for four decades during soccer seasons in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Harry Ratican (pictured) scores all three goals to lead the Ben Miller Hat Co. to a 3-1 win over Compton Hills in the professional Federal Park Soccer League at Federal Park, Grand and Laclede avenues.

The St. Louis-Star Times reports that the St. Louis Municipal Soccer League, more popularly known as the Muny League, has drawn as many as 10,000 fans for individual games for the 1933-34 season

In a rematch of two teams that played for the NPSL championship the previous season, the St. Louis Ambush knock out the NPSL champion Cleveland Crunch, 18-17.

One might think that the college soccer season never ends in St. Louis as the Missouri Amateur Cup begins. First-round games at five locations are filled with local college talent playing for St. Louis League teams such as Big Four, l971 U.S. Amateur Cup champion Kutis and 1972 U.S. Amateur Cup champion Busch.

Future Indoor Soccer Hall of Famer Slobo Ilijevksi is in top form as the St. Louis Steamers cool off the MISL’s highest-scoring team, the Cleveland Force, 5-2 before 14,173 fans at Richfield Coliseum.

The St. Louis Steamers are the second-highest drawing winter professional sports team on the average in North America. The team averages 17,418 fans after seven home games, 97 percent of the Checkerdome’s capacity.

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.