The Federal Park League was a professional soccer league featuring teams from St. Louis, Missouri . The league ended in 1915 when the top two teams from league and the top two teams from the rival St. Louis Soccer Football League joined to form the new St. Louis Soccer League .
16-515: In January 1913, in the middle of the 1912–13 season, St. Leo's withdrew from the St. Louis Soccer Football League . During the subsequent offseason, William J. Klosterman , manager of St. Leo's, claimed to have reorganized the St. Louis Soccer Football League with Winton E. Barker as its president. In actuality, this St. Louis Soccer Football League was a breakaway organization formed by Klosterman to compete with
32-444: A 4-4 tie. On December 29, 1912, St. Leo’s defeated the 1912 American Cup holders West Hudson A.A. 4-2. St. Louis Association Foot Ball League The Association Foot Ball League was a soccer league based in St. Louis, Missouri , that existed from 1890 until 1910. In 1889, several St. Louis teams banded together to form a citywide league formed under the name of the St. Louis Foot-Ball Association. The Kensingtons were
48-556: A lease to play its matches at the Athletic Park where the old league had played since its founding. As such, the old St. Louis Soccer Football League moved to Robison Field for the 1913–14 season. Confusion was caused by both leagues calling themselves by the exact same name and the new league moving into the old league's venue. As such, the old league was more commonly referred to as the Robison Field Soccer League while
64-650: The 1911-1912 season that St. Leo’s withdrew from the league during the end of the season. Despite not playing several games, it still won the league title. The team re-entered the SLSL for the 1912-1913 season, but the resentment at its success could no longer be contained and the SLSL split in 1913 into two leagues, the Athletic Park League and the Pastime Park League. St. Leo’s took both Federal Park League titles, but in 1915, Innisfails defeated St. Leo's for
80-485: The AFL merged with the St. Louis Soccer League which had been established the year before. St. Leo’s quickly asserted its dominance as the only fully professional team in the new league. It ran off a string of five championships. By 1910, frustrations at St. Leo’s success began to surface among the league’s other teams. This led to a movement to make the SLSL and entirely amateur league. This controversy became so heated during
96-595: The Innisfails, and all the Innisfail players, stayed faithful to the old league. Given that his manager and all his players had decided to stay in the old league, Whelan returned to the old league as backer of the Innisfail team. The other two teams to join the new St. Louis Soccer Football League were Columbian A.C. and the Rock Church team, the latter invited as a member to replace the Innisfail team. The new league had taken
112-618: The Junior League, winning the league title. In 1903, St. Leo's moved up to the Amateur League which competed at Christian Brother's College where they again won the league title. During the 1904-05 season, they competed in a league at Forest Park, in 1905-06, they entered the Empire Park League and in 1906-08 the St. Louis Association Foot Ball League winning the championship in each of those seasons. Following its 1908 championship,
128-487: The U.S.F.A. and those teams to join the top two teams in the Federal Park League, St. Leo's and Ben Miller, to form a new, stronger organization, the St. Louis Soccer League . St. Leo%27s (soccer team) St. Leo’s was a U.S. soccer team based in St. Louis, Missouri . It was founded in 1903 as a member of the St. Louis Association Football League before moving to the St. Louis Soccer League in 1908. It
144-475: The already-established St. Louis Soccer Football League. In addition to St. Leo's, a new Ben Millers team, managed by Pete Ratican (brother of Harry Ratican ), and the Innisfails team joined the new league. While Michael Whelan , backer of the Innisfails decided to jump from the old St. Louis Soccer Football League to the new league and take over as manager of the team, Willie Foley , who had been manager of
160-456: The city championship. The first game of the three game series ended in a 2-2 tie with Innisfails taking the second game, 4-2. The third game never materialized because of conflicting events and unavailability of players. That summer, the two leagues merged to form a renewed SLSL. This episode did not serve St. Leo’s long term interests as it brought Ben Millers into the top level of St. Louis soccer. Ben Millers quickly established themselves as
176-418: The dominant team and St. Leo’s and Innisfails found themselves fighting for second place. In 1918, St. Leo’s Catholic Church withdrew its sponsorship from the team and the team gained the sponsorship of St. Louis Screws. St. Leo's had a Municipal League team entered in the 1922 National Challenge Cup . In December 1911 the St. Leos hosted the 1911 American Cup holders Tacony of Philadelphia and played them to
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#1732941757799192-531: The first St. Teresa club. In 1894 and 1895, the champions from both leagues played for the city title. St. Teresa won both years. In 1895, the Sodality League merged with the Association Foot Ball League, bringing in St. Teresa which promptly won the league title. In 1897, violent play on the part of St. Teresa led to a one-year suspension from the league. In 1907, the St. Louis Soccer League
208-553: The new league was more commonly referred to as the Athletic Park Soccer League . The Athletic Park League affiliated with the newly sanctioned United States Football Association which left the older Robison Field League as an outlaw organization. Prior to the 1914–15 season, the newer league moved into Federal League Park and renamed itself as the Federal Park Soccer League . Even after this name change,
224-513: The older St. Louis Soccer Football League continued to be commonly called the Robison Field League. Compton Hill A.C. joined the Federal Park League to replace Rock Church. Negotiations to end the warring between the leagues went on throughout the 1914–15 season until a plan was finalized near the end of March 1915. The plan called for the top two teams of the St. Louis Soccer Football league, Innisfail and Columbus Club , to be admitted to
240-483: The surprise winners of the first two league titles. Most of the Kensington players were local high school players, but the brilliant play of goalkeeper Jumbo Trimble led the team to victory. In 1892, Blue Bells, composed mostly of Scottish railroad workers emerged as the team to beat. In 1893, the Sodality League emerged as a rival league. Composed of teams formed from local Roman Catholic Sodalities, this league included
256-458: Was one of the first fully professional soccer teams in the U.S. and dominated the St. Louis soccer scene for over a decade. In 1918, the team came under sponsorship of St. Louis Screw and competed under that name until 1922. Nicknamed the Blue and White, St. Leo’s was founded by William Klosterman in 1902 as a recreational team for the St. Leo’s Sodality, a Catholic men’s organization. It competed in
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