The rules of the game were first written down in 1863 by the newly formed Football Association in England.
Everton's Dixie Dean set an English record when he scored 60 goals during the 1927-28 season.
The first soccer game based on English FA rules in the United States took place between Rutgers University and Princeton University on Novermber 6, 1869.
The team sponsored by Bethlehem Steel won four out of the first six US Open Cup tournaments- 1915, '16, '18 and '19.
More than 90,000 people filled the Rose Bowl to watch the United States defeat China in the 1999 Women's World Cup final.