The Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team was a varsity college soccer team that represented the
Christian Brothers College (now a high school) from the 1870s until the 1910s.
The team is best known for being one of the most dominant pre-regulation
college soccer
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programs in the United States, retroactively winning ASHA and IFRA pre-regulation national championships. In total, the Cadets won 16 consecutive national championships between 1890 and 1905. The 1905 title was shared with
Haverford College
Haverford College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), began accepting non-Quakers in 1849, and became coeducational ...
by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League, which was the governing body of college soccer in the United States from 1904 until 1958 (the NCAA began governing college soccer in 1959).
Since at least the 1930s the program was downgraded to a high school boys' school program, where they would win 9 state championships in Missouri.
Honors
*ASHA/IFRA National Champions (15): 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904
*ISFL National co-champions (1): 1905
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Summer Olympics
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Silver Medal:
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
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See also
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1904–05 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team
References
Defunct soccer clubs in Missouri
1870 establishments in Missouri
1930 disestablishments in Missouri
Association football clubs disestablished in 1930
Association football clubs established in 1870
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