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Line 12: \| dissolved = \| American = Yes \| ~~ground~~ stadium = ~~<!-- or: stadium -->~~ \| capacity = \| coordinates = Line 25: \| season = \| position = \| website = http://~~kutissoccerclub~~kutissoccer.com/ \| kit_alt1 = \| pattern_la1 =_shoulder_stripes_white_stripes\| pattern_b1=_shoulder_stripes_white_stripes\| pattern_ra1 =_shoulder_stripes_white_stripes\| pattern_sh1=_white stripes\|pattern_so1= _color_3_stripes_white\| leftarm1=ff0000 \| body1=ff0000 \| rightarm1 = ff0000\| shorts1=000000\|socks1=ff0000 Line 49: ===Years of dominance=== [[File:Kutis team photo.JPG\|thumb\|right\|300px\|St. Louis Kutis team c. ~~1954~~1957.]] In its first year in existence, Kutis won the St. Louis Major Soccer League title with a 12–1–3 record. In addition, the club’s lower division team took the St. Louis Municipal League Championship title. While Kutis entered the [[Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\|National Challenge Cup]] for the first time, it was an inauspicious start. The team defeated the Chicago Falcons 2–0. However the Falcons managed to show that Kutis had used ineligible players. In the replay, Kutis and Chicago played first to a scoreless tie, then in the third match, Chicago overcame Kutis 2–1. Chicago then went on to win the National Cup. [[File:Ruben_Mendoza_headshot_KUTIS.JPG\|thumb\|left\|230px\|[[Ruben Mendoza]] (#10) heading the ball during a Kutis match]] In 1954, the St. Louis Major Soccer League folded and was replaced by the St. Louis Municipal League, formerly the lower competition, as the city’s highest league. Since Kutis had fielded a team in both leagues in 1953, the club decided to place both in the Municipal league. The top Kutis club took the North Division title and the overall league title while the reserve team was second in the South Division. This year, Kutis made it to the ~~Open~~National Challenge Cup Final, before falling 1–0 and 2–0 to the professional [[New York Americans]]. ~~They also lost the National Challenge Cup to the Americans.~~ The Municipal League folded at the end of the 1954 season, to be replaced by the Khoury League. However, Kutis decided to withdraw his club from league play and field it as an independent team playing an exhibition schedule only. While this schedule featured teams mainly from St. Louis and Chicago, Kutis also took on [[1. FC Nürnberg\|Nürnberg]] (a 3–2 victory). Line 60: Despite not playing in an organized league for the rest of the decade, Kutis rose to become one of the dominant teams on a national level. They went on to win the [[National Amateur Cup]] six consecutive years (1956–1961) and were perennial contenders for the National Challenge Cup, finally winning the title in 1957. In ~~1958~~1957-58, the success of Kutis was such that the [[United States Soccer Federation\|Soccer Federation]] chose it to represent the U.S. in the two [[1958 FIFA World Cup qualification\|1958 FIFA World Cup qualifying]] matches that year. During World Cup qualifications, Kutis club lost to the Canadian national team 3-2 on July 6th, 1957 in St. Louis. In 1960, one of the Kutis club teams won the St. Louis Municipal League title. In 1963 and 1964, the Junior Team took the National Junior Cup titles. ===Years of decline=== Kutis continued to find success into the late 1960s, mostly in the National Amateur Cup. However, by the late 1960s, the rise first of the [[National Professional Soccer League II\|National Professional Soccer League]] then its successor league, the [[North American Soccer League (1968–1984)\|North American Soccer League]], saw the rapid rise in professional U.S. soccer. By the early 1970s a local amateur club such as Kutis could no longer compete successfully. ===Brief resurgence=== The collapse of the NASL in the early 1980s, accompanied by the collapse of the [[American Soccer League (~~1933-1983~~1933–1983)\|American Soccer League]], led to a brief resurgence of local and independent "super clubs" such as Kutis. This resurgence put them back into contention for the U.S. Cup in the mid and late 1980s, but as the various independent clubs began to coalesce into leagues, such as the [[Western Soccer League]], third [[American Soccer League (~~1988-1989~~1988–1989)\|American Soccer League]] and the [[Lone Star Soccer Alliance]], Kutis again faded from the national scene. In 2007, Kutis forfeited its [[2007 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualification\|Open Cup qualifying game]] with AAFC Elite. Nowadays, Kutis S.C. focus on children's soccer. Line 73: {\| class="wikitable" \|- ! Year !! League !! Regular Season !! Amateur Cup !! ~~Open~~National Cup \|- \| [[1947 North American Soccer Football League season\|1947]] \|\| NASFL \|\|3rd \|\| \|\| Line 162: * Bob Corbett 1947–1948 * [[Joe Carenza, Sr]] 1954– * [[Jim Henson]] 1986 * [[Tony Glavin]] 1991–2000 ==Honors== National ~~Amateur~~Challenge Cup (2): ~~1952~~1957, 1986 Runners-up (3): 1954, 1983, 1985 National Amateur Cup (8): 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1971 Runners-up (2): 1967, 1969 * St. Louis Major Soccer League (3): 1952, 1953, 1954 Runners-up (1): 1948 St. Louis Municipal Soccer League (1): 1960 ==External links== {{Commons category}} * ~~[http://kutissoccerclub.com/~~ {{Official website]}} * [http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/saintlouis.html History of Soccer in St. Louis] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008041439/http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/genealogy/dad/soccer-6.html Photos and details of the 1946–1948] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017084513/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864189-1,00.html 1958 Time Magazine article] {{USOC winners}} {{Soccer in St. Louis}} ~~{{USSoccer}}~~ [[Category:Association football clubs established in 1947]] Line 182 ⟶ 188: [[Category:1947 establishments in Missouri]] [[Category:U.S. clubs in CONCACAF Champions' Cup]] [[Category:U.S. Open Cup winners]] [[Category:St. Louis Kutis S.C.\| ]]