Featured image: The Bethlehem Steel FC victory float after winning their second US Open
Cup, then known as the National Challenge Cup, on May 6, 1916. (Photo: (Photo: University Archives
& Special Collections Department, Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville)
Tuesday night will be the first time that the Philadelphia Union has hosted a US Open Cup
match.
Featured image: Bethlehem Steel in 1915 displaying their already impressive trophy
collection. They would add their first US Open Cup, then known as the National Challenge Cup, on
May 3, 1915 when they defeated Brooklyn Celtic in the final.. (Photo: Courtesy of Dan
Morrison.)
Tuesday night will mark the 98th edition of the US Open Cup.
At the beginning of the 1909-1910 Pennsylvania League season, Kensington's Hibernians, the
reining league champs, seemed a sure bet to repeat as champions. But the Tacony team had other
ideas. Led by what the Philadelphia Inquirer described as "the splendid half-back line" of
team captain Hector McDonald, former Scotland junior international Robert Morrison, and Percy
Potts, the Tacony team defeated the Hibs 2-0 on October 23, 1909.