Harry Keough

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Harry Keough
Personal information
Full name	Harry Joseph Keough
Date of birth	November 15, 1927 (1927-11-15) (age 80)
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1945-1946	St. Louis Schumachers
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1946 -1952 1953-1961	San Francisco Barbarians St. Louis McMahon St. Louis Raiders St. Louis Kutis
National team
1949-1957	United States	17 (1)
Teams managed
1967-1982	Florissant Valley Community College St. Louis University
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Harry Joseph Keough (born November 15, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American former soccer defender who played on the United States national team in their 1–0 upset of England at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He spent most of his club career in his native St. Louis, winning a national junior championship, two U.S. Open Cup and seven National Amateur Cup titles. He coached the St. Louis University soccer team to five NCAA Men's Soccer Championships. The Keough Award, named after him, is presented each year to the outstanding St. Louis-based male and female professional or college soccer player.

Contents 1 Playing 1.1 Club career 1.2 National and Olympic teams 2 Coaching 3 Recognition 4 Personal 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing

[edit] Club career

Keough grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, attending Cleveland High School. As a youth he played several sports, including track and swimming, but only excelled at soccer. His career began in 1945 as a member of the St. Louis Schumachers team that won the 1946 National Challenge Junior Cup.^[1] In 1946, he joined the U.S. Navy. He was assigned to a naval base in San Francisco, California where he played for the San Francisco Barbarians which had dominated west coast soccer in the first half of the century. Keough was eventually sent to San Diego as part of a destroyer crew. After his discharge from the Navy, Keough returned to St. Louis where he joined St. Louis McMahon which played in the lower division St. Louis Municipal League. He was with McMahon when selected for the U.S. national team as it entered qualification for the 1950 World Cup. At some point after the cup, Keough moved to St. Louis Raiders of the first division St. Louis Major League. The Raiders won both the league and National Amateur Cup championships in 1952, giving Keough his first “double”. Following the 1952 season, Tom Kutis took over sponsorship of the team, renaming it St. Louis Kutis S.C.. The team continued its winning ways under its new name, winning the 1953 and 1954 league titles. It also went to the 1954 U.S. Open Cup final where it fell to New York Americans of the American Soccer League. The St. Louis Major League had folded in 1954 and Kutis continued to play both as an independent team and as a member of various lower division city leagues over the next decade. Despite this turbulence, it continued to dominate both the city and national soccer scene. Kutis would win the National Amateur Cup each year from 1956 to 1961. In 1957, it won the U.S. Open Cup, giving Keough another double.

[edit] National and Olympic teams

In 1949, Keough was called into the national team for the 1949 NAFC Championship, to be held in Mexico. This was the second time the NAFC had held a regional championship, but this one served as the qualification tournament for the World Cup as well. Keough gained his first cap with the national team in its 1-1 tie with Cuba on September 14, 1949. The U.S. finished second out of the three teams, giving it a spot in the cup for the first time since 1937. At the World Cup, Keough served as team capatin for the game against Spain "because he spoke Spanish." He also made appearances for the U.S. team in the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics, as well as the qualifying matches for the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cups. His last game with the national team was a 3-2 World Cup qualification loss to Canada on July 6, 1957.^[2]

[edit] Coaching

Upon his retirement as a player, he became coach of Florissant Valley Community College. In 1967, St. Louis University hired him away from Florrisant. In his first year with the Billikens, Keough took his team an NCAA co-championship. He then took his team to four additional championships during his tenure (1969, 1970, 1972, and 1973). When he retired from coaching in 1982, he had compiled a 213-50-23 record with SLU.

[edit] Recognition

Keough was inducted into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame in 1972,^[3] the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1976 (along with his 1950 U.S. teammates), the St. Louis University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995,^[4] and the NSCAA Hall of Fame in 1996. In January 2004, Keough and the four other living members of the 1950 World Cup Team (Walter Bahr, Frank Borghi, Gino Pariani and John Souza) were recognized as Honorary All-Americas by the NSCAA at its annual convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

[edit] Personal

During his playing career, Keough worked for the U.S. Postal Service. Keough's son Ty was also a professional soccer player who played for the U.S. team and is now a sports commentator for soccer broadcasts.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• National Soccer Hall of Fame profile

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Persondata
NAME	Keough, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Louis, Missouri
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH