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1913–14 National Challenge Cup

Dewar Challenge Cup
Tournament details
Country	United States
Teams	40
Final positions
Champions	Brooklyn Field Club (1st title)
Runner-up	Brooklyn Celtic
Tournament statistics
Matches played	39
Goals scored	159 (4.08 per match)
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The 1913–14 National Challenge Cup was the inaugural edition of the national knock-out soccer competition in the United States that would eventually become the modern-day Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Brooklyn Field Club won the title.

The competition ran alongside the 1914 American Cup, an older, similar competition organized by the American Football Association (AFA). At the time, two different organizations vied for recognition as the official national association for American soccer, the predominantly north-eastern AFA and the organizers of the Challenge Cup, the newly named United States Football Association. The organizers of the National Challenge Cup prevailed, and the 1913-14 competition is thus recognized as that years national cup tournament, and the inaugural edition of what is now the U.S. Open Cup.

The second round drawing took place on November 9, 1913.

Bracket

Home teams listed on top of bracket

(*) replay after tied match
w/o walkover/forfeit victory awarded

Final

Brooklyn Field Club (NY)	2–1	(NY) Brooklyn Celtic
Adamson 3' Ford 87'	Report	Campion 27' (pen.)

• W. Haughie
• H. Hinds or Hynds
• Charles Drinkwater
• H. W. Matthews
• Neil Clark
• Nichols
• James Ford
• George Knowles
• Percy Adamson (c)
• Robert Millar
• Harry Shanholt
• Manager:
• Frank Mather
• James Robertson
• Andrew Robertson
• Hugh Kelly
• David Flanagan
• Frank O'Hara
• Albert Lonie
• Thomas Campion
• Roddy O'Halloran (c)
• Thomas McGreevey
• Paddy Butler
• Manager: Thomas McCamphill

See also

• 1914 American Cup

References

• 1914 National Challenge Cup
• 1914 National Challenge Cup results

1. Manning, Dr. G. Randolph (December 20, 1914). "Soccer Football Outlook: Colleges, Schoolboys, and Athletic Clubs Taking Up Game". The New York Times. No. 20, 784. New York, New York. p. S1.
2. Now the United States Soccer Federation to avoid confusion with the American football, previously the American Amateur Football Association.
3. "NEW SOCCER SCHEDULE.: National Association Clubs Draw for Second Round Cup Matches". The New York Times. No. 20, 379. New York, New York. November 10, 1913. p. 7.

External links

• Open Cup Finals
• US Open Cup History Part 1: 1914 to 1938 - Youtube

• 1913–14 in American soccer
• U.S. Open Cup
• 1913–14 domestic association football cups