Elwood Cook, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Elwood Cook

American soccer player

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: association football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Elwood Cook

  • Elwood “Butch” Cook is a former U.S.
  • soccer forward who earned four caps with the U.S.
  • national team in 1957.
  • He was also a member of the 1952 U.S.
  • Olympic soccer team. Cook was selected for the U.S.
  • soccer team at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
  • The U.S.
  • lost 8-0 to Italy in the first round.
  • He then went on to play for St.
  • Louis Kutis S.C.
  • during the mid-1950s when Kutis was a dominant U.S.
  • soccer club.
  • In 1957, Kutis won the National Challenge Cup, defeating New York Hakoah 3-0 and 3-1 in March and April.
  • In 1957, the U.S.
  • national team began the qualification process for the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
  • Cook was called into the U.S.
  • team which lost the first qualification games to Mexico in April.
  • In preparation for the next two games, against Canada in June, the U.S.
  • Soccer Federation disbanded the team and selected Kutis to represent the U.S.
  • Cook, as a member of Kutis, therefore played in all four U.S.
  • games.
  • Despite substituting the wholesale roster changes, the U.S.
  • lost both games to Canada and failed to qualify for the World Cup.Cook was inducted into the St.
  • Louis Soccer Hall of Fame on November 14, 1996.

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