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.
Peter Nowak may be rooting for the Chicago Fire to get their fifth US Open Cup title (10pm, Fox
Soccer), but the rest of the Union might want to pull for Seattle.
"I've been through the scenario where they tried to position it a week after MLS Cup and one
year we lost in the final at Columbus, we played the MLS final on a Sunday in New England and we
had to play the Open Cup final on a Thursday in Columbus.
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.