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The St. Louis Frogs were an American soccer club. The Frogs were owned by Giesler Sports Enterprises and given sanction to enter the American Soccer League's newly-formed Midwest Conference by the United States Soccer Football Association at the 1972, summer meetings in Anchorage. The team played only one season and was coached by Pete Traina, with Walter J. Giesler serving as general manager. Their colors were green and white, and they played their home matches at Giesler's Sports Village. [1]

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Team name

In a newspaper interview Giesler stated that the team named stemmed from a cast iron frog that had been found during a remodeling of his sporting goods store. Construction workers told him that it was an old good luck tradition of contractors to place a frog of some sort inside a wall during construction. The frog wound up becoming a decoration on his desk. Originally he had wanted to call the team the Missouri Mules, but the name had already been taken. As he struggled to come up with an original name, he realized the answer was sitting right on his desk, and thus the St. Louis Frogs were born. [2]

Year-by-year

YearLeagueRecordGFGAPositionPlayoffsU.S. Open Cup
1972 ASL 2–613165th, MidwesternDid not qualifyDid not enter

Final conference standings

Midwest ConferenceGWDLGFGAPTS
Cincinnati Comets 861119713
Cleveland Stars 860223106
Detroit Mustangs 822413286
Pittsburgh Canons 821511185
St. Louis Frogs820613164
Chicago Americans*???????

*Chicago Americans played only a few games

Game-by-game

Friendly results

DateOpponentVenueResultGoal scorersRef
July 12, 1972 SV Falke-Steinfeld (West Germany)H1–1Gary McBrady [3]

Regular season results

DateOpponentVenueResultGoal scorersRef
July 15, 1972 Cleavland Stars A0–2– [4]
July 22, 1972 Pittsburgh Canons A2–3Gary McBrady, Paul Pisani, Jim Niehoff [5]
July 30, 1972 Cincinnati Comets H0–1– [6]
August 12, 1972 Cincinnati Comets A3–0– [7]
August 13, 1972 Detroit Mustangs A3–1Frank Fischer [8]
August 20, 1972 Cleavland Stars H0–4– [9]
August 27, 1972 Pittsburgh Canons H0–1– [10]
September 4, 1972 Detroit Mustangs H9–0Mike Villa (2), Niehoff (2), McBrady (2),
John Deinowski, Tom Beaver, Jack Blake		 [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "St. Louis Frogs Take Plunge In Soccer Circuit". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 7, 1972. p. 5C. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Hummel, Rick (July 17, 1972). "NBC Keeps Giesler Hopping". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 2C. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Frogs Bounce Back To Tie Germans, 1-1". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 13, 1972. p. 5C. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Frogs Start ASL Season With 2-0 Loss". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 16, 1972. p. 6B. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Frogs Nip Pittsburgh On Niehoff's Late Goal". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 23, 1972. p. 6B. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Frogs 'Terminated' In Brawl". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. July 31, 1972. p. 3C. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Frogs Lose To Comets". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 13, 1972. p. 3B. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Frogs Not Croaking About Returning Home". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 14, 1972. p. 13A. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Punchless Frogs Punched Again". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 21, 1972. p. 3C. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Frogs Outshoot Pittsburgh, But Take 1-0 Loss". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 28, 1972. p. 7C. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Frogs Close Season With 9-0 Victory". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 5, 1972. p. 4B. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
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