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1911 “soccer championship of America”: Tacony FC in St. Louis

The Bethlehem Steel FC tour to St. Louis in December of 1916 for the unofficial title of "Champions of America" was not the first time a Philadelphia-area team had made a trip out West. Five years before, Tacony FC, the winners of the American Football Association's American Cup tournament in 1910 and a semifinalist in the tournament in 1911, had made the same trip in what would be the first of a series of exhibition matches between St.

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American Football Association United States Soccer Federation United States Football Association Bethlehem Steel amateur football US Open Cup Philadelphia Soccer History "Bull" Brannigan A. Pennell Aleck Campbell American Amateur Football Association American Cup American Football Association Bethlehem Steel FC Billy Klosterman Dave Miller Hector McDonald Innsfails National Challenge Cup Pennsylvania League Pete Harris Philadelphia Celtic Philadelphia Thistle Rob Morrison St. Leo's Tacony F.C. Tommy Hyslop United States Football Association United States Soccer Federation William Monahan

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