Loyal Realty club president Einar Larson, 58, suffers a fatal heart attack while watching his Vikings in a Knockout Cup match at Lower Woodland. Larson, a small newspaper publisher and advertising executive during his career, was prominent in Swedish community affairs and was trying to bring a Swedish club to play in Seattle. Born in Korsnas, Sweden, he immigrated to Spokane in 1923 and moved on to Seattle in 1942.

More than a thousand World Cup fans join representatives of Reign FC and Washington State Legends of Soccer to watch the USA-Netherlands final at Rhein Haus locations in Seattle and Tacoma. The two organizations partner to promote and provide pregame and halftime analysts during each of the seven USWNT match days. For the final, both Rhein Haus locations are packed to capacity with 850 on Capitol Hill and 530 in Tacoma.

Taking advantage of a depleted and embarrassingly outmatched opponent, the Seattle Sounders hammer the California Jaguars by a final count of 10-0 at Memorial Stadium. The Jaguars pay the price for releasing six starters during recent cost-cutting moves, including the sale of striker Mark Baena to Seattle. Baena scores a club-record four goals and it's a record team total for a league match as well. It's the first of four straight wins and seven in the next nine.

Heavy rain and poor drainage leaves Interbay Field unplayable for a state league doubleheader. Over two inches of precipitation has been measured in December's first three days, and more is on the way. Another series of storms two weeks later make both White Center and Lower Woodland unplayable and postpone state league matches until the New Year.

Stephen Balogh, sponsor of United Milk, is among the hosts of a holiday party for some 200 Hungarian refugees marking their first Christmas in America. Balogh invited every Hungarian he encountered at a recent United Milk match. Members of the Hungarian Resettlement Service and newly-founded Hungarian-American Society baked cake and pastries, Seattle businesses donated food and toys were distributed to the children attending the party at the Eagle s Temple.

In the third and deciding game of the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup series, Seattle's St. Mary's defeats St. Anne's, 3-1, to retain the title at Catholic Memorial Field. St. Anne's was the Parochial School League grade school winner.