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For most of the first sixty years of the 1900's, women’s soccer was confined to gym class, informal pickup games and college
intramural competition. One notable exception to this history was the establishment in 1951 of the first organized women’s league.
This circuit was established in 1951 by Father Craig of St. Matthew’s Parish of North St. Louis. The Craig Club Girls Soccer League consisted of four teams, and played full schedules for two seasons.
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Although their history was short, it was a milestone in the history of women’s soccer, although it would be over a decade before the sport began to make a true start in the colleges.
Unlike the men’s game, women’s soccer had much of its early growth in the college game. Although their was resistance to women’s soccer in the college ranks, there was even more at the club level, due to the game’s male-oriented and tradition-bound institutions.
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