Harry Keough

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Harry Keough (born November 15, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American former soccer player who played on the United States national team in their 1–0 upset of England in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He was also the coach of the St. Louis University soccer team, leading the Billikens to five NCAA Men's Soccer Championships. The Keough Award, presented each year to the outstanding St. Louis–based male and female professional or college soccer player, is named after him.

Keough's career began in 1945 as a member of the St. Louis Schumachers team that won the 1946 National Challenge Junior Cup. Soon after that, he joined the U.S. Navy and played for the San Francisco Barbarians before being sent to San Diego as part of a destroyer crew. In 1949 he was selected to join the national team and played in the World Cup qualifying matches. For the game against Spain in the first round of the Cup finals, Keough was selected to be captain "because he spoke Spanish."

After the World Cup, he played soccer with the St. Louis Raiders, with whom he won the National Amateur Cup in 1952. With the St. Louis Kutis, he won U.S. Open Cup titles in 1954 and 1957, and six more Amateur Cup medals in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961.

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.

During his playing career, Keough worked for the U.S. Postal Service. Upon his retirement as a player, he became coach of the St. Louis University team and in his first year (1967), they were co-champions of NCAA Men's Division I Soccer. They went on to win four additional championships during his tenure (1969, 1970, 1972, and 1973). When he retired from coaching in 1982, he had compiled a record of 213 wins, 50 losses, and 23 draws. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1976 (along with his 1950 U.S. teammates), and into the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame in 1996.

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.

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• Harry Keough in the National Soccer Hall of Fame

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

	United States squad - 1950 FIFA World Cup
1 Bahr | 2 Borghi | 3 Colombo | 4 Coombes | 5 Craddock | 6 Gaetjens | 7 Gard | 8 Keough | 9 McIlvenny | 10 Maca | 11 Pariani | 12 E. Souza | 13 J. Souza | 14 Wallace | 15 Wolanin | Coach: Jeffrey