St. Louis Shamrocks was an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

team based in

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. They competed in the

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, winning two championships.

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founded Shamrocks in 1897. When St. Teresa was suspended from the league in 1897 for violent play, several players moved to Shamrock. They won the 1897-98 and 1898-99 St. Louis Association Football League. They finished fourth in the 1907-08 season.

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St. Louis Soccer Champions

1908 team photo

Defunct soccer clubs in Missouri

Shamrocks Shamrocks is a solitaire game akin to La Belle Lucie. The object is the same as the latter: move the cards into the foundations. Rules The game is layout out as in La Belle Lucie: seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one ca ...

Association football clubs established in 1897 1897 establishments in Missouri {{Missouri-footyclub-stub

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