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The Wisconsin State Soccer Football League returned for the 1939-40 season with 13 teams and basically the same clubs as the prior season. Division A was made up of nine teams and Division B had four. The Hungarian Tigers of Milwaukee won the Division A title by one point over the next three teams. The race was so close that the fifth place Zastrow's Dodge-Plymouth team was only two points off the...
With an influx of teams from the Milwaukee Municipal League the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League grew to 14 teams and again split into two divisions. The clubs again played the traditional double round-robin split into fall and spring halves. The Lake Shore Oil Co. team took the Division A title and Kipper's Tavern won the Division B championship. The Lake Shore Oil team also won the Wiscons...
The Wisconsin State Soccer Football League failed to organize in the fall of 1937. The Wisconsin State Football Association met in February of 1938 to discuss reorganization of the state league. The WSFA saw the reorganization of the WSSFL as an attempt to restore soccer in the state of Wisconsin to the prominence it held during the period through 1930 when interest in the sport began to decline. ...
The Wisconsin Soccer Football League barely survived to play the 1936-37 season. Half the teams from the prior season left during the offseason. The Deutscher Sport Club first team and F.C. Bayern second team (both of Milwaukee) went to the Milwaukee Municipal League. The Deutscher Sport Club of Racine and Simmons of Kenosha dropped down to the Lake Shore Soccer League, and F.C. Bayern of Sheboyga...
Otto Reiss, president of the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League, was elected president of the Wisconsin State Football Association by acclamation at the organization's annual meeting on May 27, 1935. Reiss was re-elected president of the WSSFL at its annual meeting on July 9, 1935. The WSSFL was down to 10 teams total for the 1935-36 season. Division A dropped to five teams with the losses ...
Otto Reis, former Bayern-Schlitz manager, was elected president of the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League at the organization's annual meeting on July 11, 1934. Reis succeeded Frank Belezanay who held the office for the entire history of the WSSFL up to that point. Division A of the WSSFL included nine teams for the 1934-35 season. Deutscher Sport Verein left in the offseason for the Milwau...
During the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League's annual meeting on July 19, 1933, the organization's rule limiting competition to just amateurs was struck from the by-laws. That meant professional players were eligible to compete in the league when play resumed in the fall. It also meant that a number of teams acquired sponsorship for the upcoming season. Teams in Milwaukee taking on the names ...
The Wisconsin Soccer Football League Division A comprised 10 teams for the 1932-33 season. Eight teams returned from the prior season plus F.C. Bayern Lions from Sheboygan and Milwaukee Hungarian A.C. Kenosha Sport Club dropped down to Division B. That division was made up of eight teams. Deutscher Sport Club of Racine returned from the Racine Municipal League and a new club, Madison Badger S.C., ...
The 1931-32 season of the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League began with 10 teams. Deutscher Sport Club, Deutscher Sport Verein, Vienna A.C and F.C. Wacker all from Milwaukee returned along with Viking A.C. from Racine and the Kenosha Sport Club. The latter was the new name for Kenosha's Deutscher Sport Club. Sheboygan Sports Club returned from one season in the Eastern Wisconsin Soccer Footbal...
The Wisconsin State Soccer Football League remained at six clubs for the 1930-31 season. The Deutscher Sport Club of Kenosha moved up from Division B to replace the Sheboygan Sports Club which moved to the Eastern Wisconsin Soccer Football League. The other five teams remained the same. Deutscher Sport Club, Deutscher Sport Verein, Vienna A.C., and F.C. Wacker all from Milwaukee returned along wit...
For the 1929-30 season, the Division A of the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League added Deutscher Sport Club of Milwaukee which was moved up from Class B the previous season. Division B dropped from six to four teams with the promotion of Deutscher Sport Club and the withdrawal of the Vienna A.C. second team. The WSSFL continued the traditional fall and spring halves of the schedule with a wint...
The Wisconsin State Soccer Football League created the Eastern Wisconsin Soccer Football League before the fall half of the 1928-29 season. The EWSFL was a branch division of the WSSFL and made up of team from eastern Wisconsin. The EWSFL played a short fall round robin season with four teams: Two Rivers; Kohler (which had played in the WSSFL the prior season); Oshkosh Sport Club; and the Shebo...
With Deutscher Sport Verein moving up from the B division to replace the Simmons Blues, the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League Class A competition stayed at six teams for the 1928-29 season. The Class B competition lost the Kohler club to the new Eastern Wisconsin Soccer Football League. It increased to six teams with the additions of the Deutscher Sport Club of Milwaukee, the Deutscher Sport ...
On August 26, 1927 the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League met to iron out details for the 1927-28 season. League officials decided that there would be two entirely separate divisions in the league operating under the same organization. The first, or A division, was made up of Viking A.C. of Racine, Simmons Blues and Ke-Nash-A of Kenosha, F.C. Wacker and Vienna A.C. of Milwaukee, and the Sheboy...
After a season of aggregating under the Kenosha Athletic Association, the Kenosha teams returned to being individually controlled and joined the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League for the 1926-27 season. After a season the Chicago B league, the Kenosha Reds rejoined the WSSFL as the MacWhytes. After spending the prior season as the Kenosha Blues, the Simmons company team became the Simmons Blu...
During their August meeting, the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League decided to limit entry to 10 teams and set an entry fee of $10 including all expenses. A schedule for the 1925-26 season was drafted again in two halves - one in fall and one in the spring with the champion to have the highest percentage of wins for the entire season. The 10 teams that begin in mid-September were Viking A.C. a...
On August 18, 1924, representatives of 20 soccer teams of the Wisconsin State Football Association from Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, and Two Rivers met at the Republican Hotel in Racine and reorganized the Wisconsin State Soccer Football League. The new organization drew up a constitution and bylaws, adopted playing rules, and elected officers. Frank Beleznay was elected the first presid...
The Wisconsin State Football Association held the 1923-24 state cup competition during September and October of 1923. The MacWhyte club had held the state cup for three consecutive years and would take permanent possession of the cup if they beat a reorganized Simmons team in the final. The two teams met on Sunday, October 14, 1923 at Simmons Athletic Field. With 350 in attendance, the match ende...
Following the abbreviated 1920-21 season, the Wisconsin State Football Association - Lake Shore Soccer League met in late September 1921 and attempted to organize the 1921-22 league season with only three teams - Horlick of Racine and MacWhyte and Simmons of Kenosha. With soccer players from Racine, Kenosha and Zion City leaving the area due to industrial conditions, the league was not able to lau...
The Lake Shore Association Football League reorganized for the 1920-21 season. During the summer, the league negotiated with a number of Milwaukee teams (including Falk Company, Allis Chalmers and Indian Motorcycle) to join the league. The league also considered establishing a First and Second Division. The former would be made up of stars and veterans while the latter would be composed of amateur...
The Lake Shore Association Football League met during July of 1919 for the first time in two years. The league was dormant during the 1918-19 season due to the lack of players available. On July 28, 1919 the league met at Horlick's club rooms in Racine. The league reorganized for the 1919-20 season and, as it had the privilege of becoming affiliated with the U.S.F.A., decided to change its name to...
Prior to the 1917-18 Lake Shore Association Football League season, the MacWhyte team disbanded and many players moved to the Simmons team. The Jeffery team also left the league. The Horlick-Racine and Simmons team returned along with the Riverdale team from Kenosha and a team from Zion City, Ill. nicknamed the Magpies. The fall 1917 LSAFL season ran from Sunday September 23, 1917 to Sunday Nov...
The annual general meeting of the Milwaukee and District Association Football League was held on March 18, 1916 at the Blatz Hotel in Milwaukee. Because traveling expenses were such a hardship, the organization decided to reorganized and split into two leagues each with four club - one for Milwaukee teams and one for Kenosha and Racine teams. The Kenosha and District Association Football League...
Following the 1914-15 Milwaukee and District Association Football League, the Racine City club was replaced by two teams: Belle City; and Horlick's Racine. The former was a completely new organization while the latter was made up a group of veteran Racine players that had played together for a number of seasons. The seven-team MDAFL would play a double round-robin entirely within the fall seaso...
Six teams returned for the 1914-15 season: Caledonians of Milwaukee; MacWhytes of Kenosha; Racine City; St. George's of Milwaukee; Vikings of Milwaukee; and Jeffery from Kenosha. The latter team was the new name of the Kenosha Ramblers as the Thomas B. Jeffery Company changed the branding of their automobiles from Rambler to Jeffery. The Lake Forest, Kenosha Rangers, and Waukegan teams did not ret...
In September of 1913, the Milwaukee and District Association Football League admitted three new members: Lake Forest and Waukegan from Illinois; and the MacWhytes. The latter club was sponsored by the Macomber and Whyte Rope Company which had moved to Kenosha in 1912 from Coal City, Ill. The South Milwaukee team did not return from the spring season leaving the league with nine teams. Prior to the...
On March 1, 1913, 50 members of the Kenosha Rangers and Ramblers soccer teams and friends of soccer traveled to the Blatz Hotel in Milwaukee to attend a banquet given by the Sons of St. George team. Following the banquet. That afternoon the Milwaukee and District Association Football League was organized. Teams included the Sons of St. George, Caledonians, Pilgrims, and Vikings, all from Milwaukee...
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