TABLE OF CONTENTS National Championships .........................2-13 NCAA Tournament Summary ...............14-15 Career Records ................................................16 Season Records ...............................................17 Single-Game Records ....................................18 NCAA Tournament Records ........................18 Annual Scoring Leaders ...............................19 Individual Honors .....................................20-22 Year-by-Year Results ................................23-28 Series Records ............................................29-30 Alumni (Field Players) .............................31-33 Alumni (Goalkeepers) ...................................34 Annual Team Awards ....................................35 Billikens in the Pros ..................................36-37 US Soccer/Hall of Fame ................................38 HISTORY & RECORD BOOK *UPDATED THROUGH 2019 SEASON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS Head Coach: Bob Guelker Overall Record: 11-1-0 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 4, San Francisco 0 (FR) Saint Louis 6, CC-New York 2 (SF) 1959 Saint Louis 5, Bridgeport 2 (F) Head Coach: Bob Guelker Overall Record: 14-1-0 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 2, California 0 (FR) Saint Louis 2, West Chester 1 (SF) 1960 Saint Louis 3, Maryland 2 (F) Head Coach: Bob Guelker Overall Record: 12-0-1 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 9, Stanford 3 (FR) Saint Louis 2, Michigan State 0 (SF) 1962 Saint Louis 4, Maryland 3 (F) Head Coach: Bob Guelker Overall Record: 13-1-0 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 2, Michigan State 0 (FR) Saint Louis 3, San Francisco 2 (QF) Saint Louis 7, Maryland 3 (SF) 1963 Saint Louis 3, Navy 0 (F) Head Coach: Bob Guelker Overall Record: 14-0-0 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 2, Ohio 1 (FR) Saint Louis 5, San Francisco 2 (QF) Saint Louis 3, Navy 1 (SF) 1965 Saint Louis 1, Michigan State 0 (F) {2} SLU Soccer History & Record Book (updated through 2019 season) NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS Head Coach: Harry Keough Overall Record: 8-3-2 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 6, Colorado Coll. 1 (FR) Saint Louis 4, San Jose St. 3 (QF) Saint Louis 1, Navy 0 (SF) 1967 Saint Louis 0, Michigan State 0 (F) (Co-Champions were declared due to inclement weather) Head Coach: Harry Keough Overall Record: 13-0-0 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 4, SIUE 0 (SR) Saint Louis 2, Cleveland St. 1 (QF) Saint Louis 2, Harvard 1 (SF) 1969 Saint Louis 4, San Francisco 0 (F) Head Coach: Harry Keough Overall Record: 14-0-1 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 7, Akron 0 (SR) Saint Louis 2, SIUE 1 (QF) Saint Louis 1, Hartwick 0 (SF) 1970 Saint Louis 1, UCLA 0 (F) Head Coach: Harry Keough Overall Record: 15-2-3 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 2, Bowling Green 0 (SR) Saint Louis 3, Ohio 1 (QF) Saint Louis 2, Howard 1 (SF) 1972 Saint Louis 4, UCLA 2 (F) Head Coach: Harry Keough Overall Record: 15-2-3 NCAA Tournament Ledger Saint Louis 6, Bowling Green 0 (SR) Saint Louis 3, SIUE 0 (QF) Saint Louis 3, Brown 1 (SF) 1973 Saint Louis 2, UCLA 1 (ot) (F) {3} SLU Soccer History & Record Book (updated through 2019 season) 1959 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS This is it,” exulted John Dueker. “You can feel no more. There is no more to feel.” A player for the first Billiken varsity soccer team, Dueker made those comments after SLU captured the first NCAA soccer championship in 1959. The Billikens defeated the University of Bridgeport 5-2 on Saturday, Nov. 28, in Storrs, Conn., on a day so powerfully wrought with wind and rain that the score was kept inside a plastic bag. Dueker had plenty to crow about. It was the first year that soccer was a varsity sport at Saint Louis. The team was comprised entirely of St. Louisans as compared to semifinalist City College of New York (CCNY), which had 14 foreign-born players on a roster of 16. The SLU team budget was $200. The players had to kick in for their shoes, and head coach Bob Jerry Knobbe and coach Bob Guelker Guelker volunteered his services. That was a good thing, because he was the only one who owned a ball. “I said that I was working and didn’t have time Saint Louis opened the tourney with a for the practices. He invited me to come out. convincing 4-0 whitewash of an impressive The Billikens entered that inaugural NCAA He said he was losing two guys because of University of San Francisco side before an Tournament with an 8-1-0 record after eligibility. I took him up.” estimated crowd of 3,000 at the old Public outscoring their opponents 56-6. But the NCAA Schools Stadium on North Kingshighway in handicapped the Bills by ruling two Billiken Shanahan ended up contributing goals in St. Louis. That put the Billikens in the final four, starters ineligible. Starters Bob Kauffman and each of the last two victories as the Bills rolled which was played during the Thanksgiving Bob Pisoni both were ruled ineligible under to the first of their record 10 NCAA titles. “That holiday. the 10-semester rule. was a great team,” he said. “It had such great talent. I was lucky to be on it. I just wanted to Range gave thanks on Thursday, Nov. 26, with a Additionally, the Billikens lost scoring leader play.” two-goal effort that rallied the Bills past CCNY. George Endler for the tournament. Endler In the other semifinal, Bridgeport prevailed led the club with 24 goals in the nine regular But it was Guelker who held it all together. over West Chester 2-1 in a battle that carried season games, but was injured in the regular Soccer had been a club sport at Saint Louis on for two days. While Bridgeport and West season finale against Purdue. Except for a few until Guelker approached then-athletic Chester waged their war, the Bills enjoyed a minutes, he would watch the tournament director Bob Stewart with an offer to coach day off by seeing the sights of New York City. from the bench. the team for free. The championship match was played in That left Jack Dueker, captain Jerry Knobbe, Stewart had been a soccer player at horrible conditions as an all-day rain turned Tom Trost and Don Range as the key players Syracuse University and was looking for a fall the pitch into a quagmire. Trost commended in the NCAA trophy hunt. Gene Block was the replacement for football, which the University Guelker for some strategic moves, “He brought goalkeeper. Bob Malone, Tom Richmond, John had dropped after 1949. Stewart leaned on Dueker up to the forward line,” he recalled. Fuchs, John Michalski and John Klein were some boosters to accumulate a little more “Jack ended up scoring a couple of goals.” other important cogs in the machine. than $200, and the Billikens were in business. An All-American in ’59, Dueker netted a hat Posters were put up in the West Pine Gym on trick as the Billikens rolled to a 5-2 triumph. Nevertheless, Guelker had to hunt for some campus announcing tryouts … “just bring Bridgeport coach John McKeon was impressed talent. He found a SLU student who was your own equipment and don’t be looking for by the Saint Louis performance. “It would take tearing up the local Catholic Youth Council scholarships.” an all-star team picked from the other three league, and the young man graciously semifinalists to give the Billikens anything like accepted the invitation to help the Billikens in Guelker passed away in 1986 after a Hall a close game,” McKeon said. their championship quest. of Fame coaching career that concluded at SIU Edwardsville. “I think Guelker had more Most of the preceding information was “I was attending Saint Louis University and influence on soccer in the United States than accumulated from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch working,” said Michael Shanahan, who would anybody else in any other sport,” said former in a 30th anniversary article that was printed go on to become chairman of the National athletic trainer Kim Tucci, who now is owner Sept. 27, 1989. Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues and chairman of The Pasta House Co. restaurants in St. Louis. of the University’s board of trustees. “I got four “Not so much in tactical skills, but what he got goals in a game one day, and that must have from his players and the organization of the caught Guelker’s eye. He called me and asked game.” why I wasn’t playing for the Bills. {4} SLU Soccer History & Record Book (updated through 2019 season) 1960 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS In 1959, the Saint Louis University soccer team The year didn’t start out too well for the with the forward line, moving Range and Trigg set the standard for what it takes to win a defending champs. In addition to finding to the center-forward positions and dropping national championship. The 1959 Billikens that out that George Endler, the 1959 leading Malone behind the front line. The tactic paid won the first NCAA championship in history scorer, would not return from a knee injury, off as Michigan State had trouble defending had depth, no individual playmakers, and they SLU dropped its first match of the season to two center-forwards. were unselfish. Fairleigh-Dickinson 3-2. The early-season victory over a highly touted So it came as no surprise that coach Bob But coach Guelker didn’t worry. Despite the opponent seemed to lift the Billikens. After Guelker’s 1960 Billiken outfit had the same loss, he said, “The team is definitely developing handling Pittsburgh 4-0 – a game which Trigg qualities as the 1959 team. into a fine ballclub.” said SLU needed to win in order to bring SLU’s soccer prestige in the East back to its old “We’ve got a team just like last year’s – well- “Fine” turned out to be an inadequate term.