The St. Louis Stars lose 5-3 to the Philadelphia Atoms in their opening game of the Region 1 NASL Indoor Tournament before 3,200 fans at Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas. Although the NASL is an outdoor league, the tournament is an experiment to gauge the public’s and the media’s interest in the indoor game..

Paul Turin (pictured) stops a penalty kick, faces 46 shots and is the game’s No. 1 star as the St. Louis Steamers top the Buffalo Stallions, 9-3, before 10,848 fans on a Wednesday night at the Checkerdome.

A St. Louis team qualifies for the National Challenge Cup championship game for the third consecutive year as Scullin Steel routs the Detroit Caledonians, 4-0, in the Western final (game summary from St. Louis Globe-Democrat).

Josh Sargent becomes the first St. Louisan to score in the English Premier League. He tallies twice for Norwich City against Watford.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Harry Ratican (pictured) is born. He will become one of the greatest players in St. Louis soccer history and will help Eastern teams Bethlehem Steel and Robins Dry Dock win the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup).

In one of the most infamous games in St. Louis soccer history, St. Leo’s and Innisfails (pictured), the top two teams in the professional St. Louis League, collide. Players fight and fans riot, forcing the game to be called with 10 minutes remaining and St. Leo’s ahead, 3-2.

The Association Foot Ball League standings in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch show two of the most powerful St. Louis teams of the 1890s at or near the top of the six-team league. The St. Louis Cycling Club (pictured) leads with 10 wins, 2 losses and no ties for 20 points, followed by St Teresa’s with 9 wins, 3 losses and no ties for 18 points. (The league only gave 2 points for a win instead of today’s 3 points.)

Three St. Louisans receive national soccer awards. Warren Lipka (pictured) is the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America’s goalkeeper of the year. Kevin Hundelt is given the inaugural Gatorade national high school player of the year award in ceremonies at the Clarion Hotel. Meanwhile, CBC coach Terry Michler is named national high school coach of the year

Steve Maurer (pictured) scores at 8:39 of overtime to give the St. Louis Ambush a wild 28-26 win over the Dayton Dynamo in Dayton.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis, the first major St. Louis college or university to field women’s soccer in 1981, lands four players on All-America teams for the 1982 season.

St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Bill Looby scores the USA’s only goal in a 3-1 loss to Mexico at the Estadio de los Deportes in Mexico City.

St. Louisans Will Bruin (first round, pictured left) and Joe Willis (third round) are selected in the MLS Superdraft. They will play important roles for MLS teams through the 2022 season.

An indication of the high regard for St. Louis soccer talent is the number of St. Louis players selected in the 1977 NASL draft. Fourteen of 75 picks are from St. Louis or St. Louis schools.

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.