Eight-time NCAA champion St. Louis University would go on to take its ninth title less than three months later, but Harry Keough's Billikens do not emerge unscathed from their first visit to Washington. First, the Huskies and freshman keeper Ed Fillion hold SLU to a scoreless draw. One night later, out-shot 50-8, Seattle Pacific gets acrobatic saves from Rex Yoder and a long-range equalizer from Doug McKenna for a 1-1 tie at Memorial Stadium. St. Louis features Hermann Trophy winner and Olympian Mike Seerey among its many future professionals.

Sports Illustrated features the Sounders-Timbers series as it moves to Memorial Stadium and the second meeting in eight days. Portland striker Peter Withe begins the game with his third goal against the Sounders in two meetings. Tommy Baldwin ties it, and Mike England scores from 30 yards for a 57' lead. It appears to be a Sounders win, but Barry Powell equalizes in the 90th minute, forcing overtime. three minutes into the extra period, Seattle wins it, 3-2, as a long throw from Paul Crossley is headed in by John Rowlands.

Scottish runners-up Aberdeen ruin Wolverhampton's holiday in Seattle, 3-0. A crowd of 6,100 comes to Memorial Stadium. Dons' newly signed Barrie Mitchell scores twice, both headers past Wolves keeper Phil Parkes in first 32 minutes. It's Aberdeen's fifth straight win on their U.S. tour. Wolves finished 10th in England's top flight.

After breaking his leg 13 months earlier, Pepe Fernandez returns and in his sixth game back comes off the bench to deliver the Sounders’ 95th minute winner, 2-1, versus Denver. A Tjeert Van’t Land chip gives Seattle the 52’ lead before Ace Ntsoelengoe ties it. Jimmy Gabriel twice hits the crossbar with headers. In overtime, a Van’t Land corner kick is headed down by Mike England and Fernandez volleys it home from 10 yards. It’s the fourth of five straight Sounders victories.

Defending Division I champion UCLA, unbeaten in 24 games, visits defending Div. II champ Seattle Pacific for an exhibition. The Bruins win, 2-1, before 3,100 at Memorial Stadium after the Falcons’ Scott Cairns is sent off. Shaun DelGrande deflects in Paul Caligiuri’s blast in the 44th minute.

A longtime institution on Sundays at Lower Woodland, the state league's first division moves to the Astroturf of Memorial Stadium with a triple-header and admission fee of $1.50 for adults.

Seattle Center director Virginia Anderson presents four options to the City Council for refurbishing and maintaining the Center for 25-30 years. The cost estimates range from $40 million to $240 million. Three of the options call for demolition of Memorial Stadium, which is owned by the Seattle School District. If the stadium were torn down, the city would have to build a replacement on another site, which could cost as much as $15 million.

Memorial Stadium is packed with 13,876 fans, making Seattle the first club in NASL history to achieve a complete sellout. The Sounders, on a sweltering early summer evening, win their fourth straight match, 2-0, over the defending champion Philadelphia behind a David Butler brace.

Seattle High School Memorial Stadium’s 10-year-old turf is replaced, and the crown removed to create a much-improved surface for soccer. The $1.6M renovation features a removable flat panelized artificial surface. The crown is leveled and soil added to even the surface, and the field is also widened in advance of the Sounders' return. The floor can be removed during the summer to protect it from damaging sun exposure. The stadium goes offline for Seattle Center use, including concerts, until late August.

Steve Furjesi scores as Value Metals of Seattle claims the Five-a-Side championship. Value Metals prevails, 1-0, over the Vancouver Spartans Bs at Memorial Stadium.

Touring first division side Third Lanark, one of the highest-scoring teams in Scottish history with 100 goals the past season, is merciless in humbling the Seattle All-Stars, 9-0, before 2,000 at Memorial Stadium. After Les Muller misfires on two early Seattle chances, the Redcoats carve up the All-Stars with crisp, short passes. Matt Gray leads Lanark with a hat trick.

Reign reach agreement with Seattle Public Schools to move to Memorial Stadium beginning in 2014, for both matches and training. Owner Bill Predmore said there are plans to upgrade the locker rooms and paint over football lines.

Major League Soccer representative Bill Sage tours several potential interim sites for a proposed Seattle charter franchise. Local organizers list Memorial Stadium, West Seattle's Sealth Stadium and Husky Stadium as candidates. Memorial Stadium’s 10-year-old turf is being replaced with a $1.6M removable flat panelized surface. The crown will be leveled and soil added to even the surface. The surface will also be widened.

Seattle Reign's four-year run at Memorial Stadium comes to a close versus Kansas City, with a 1-0 loss eliminating them from playoff contention for the second year in a row before 4,991. Seattle sags down the stretch, going 1-3-1. It also turns out to be the final Reign match at Memorial, where they were 28-4-13 after going the first 27 matches unbeaten (19-0-8).

One month before the Sounders' A-League season begins, Memorial Stadium is cleared for spectator use after being closed for several weeks. A January 5.0 earthquake damaged the 48-year-old facility, causing cracks in the roof and pieces of concrete to fall into the grandstands. The seating areas were then closed March 10 during Metro League boys' games. Seattle School District will string a system of nets under the grandstand roofs, costing $140,000 and paid for by users, including the Sounders, Seattle Center, and concert promoters. The Sounders, who move two preseason games to Renton, host Colorado May 6.

It's a storybook start to professional soccer in Seattle. A near-capacity crowd of 12,132 comes to their feet less than two minutes after kickoff as Willie Penman scores the opener vs. Denver. John Rowlands adds two more goals before intermission. After the final whistle of the 4-0 victory, Sounders players gather in the circle to applaud and wave to the fans who, in turn, roar their approval once again.

Eastside YSA’s U17 Newport Huskies win their sixth straight state championship convincingly, 9-2, over Seattle’s Hillwood Kickers, at Memorial Stadium. Steve Moore nets a hat trick and Ron Dorn adds two goals for Fred Conner’s squad.

Ken Hall’s five saves secure the shutout and Daudi Abe gets the goal that avenges previous year’s championship game defeat to Adelphi as Falcons win semifinal before 5,000 at Memorial Stadium.

After not scoring during the regular season, Bob Bruch scores twice in first eight minutes of the WSA championship match as FC Seattle smashes San Jose, 5-0, before 4,321 at Memorial Stadium. Bruch nods home Tad Willoughby's cross at 55 seconds, then adds a goal from outside the box in the 8th minute. The rout continues with John Hamel, Peter Hattrup and Chance Fry scoring. It’s the fifth straight win for the Storm, who leave the following day for a five-match tour of England and Scotland.

More than 1,000 men and nearly 100 women are expected to begin play at the All Nations Cup, at Starfire. Men representing 41 countries will participate in the main tournament, with 12 teams in the men's master division and four teams in the women's tourney. Play culminates July 29 at Memorial Stadium.

Mountlake Terrace claims the first official state high school championship, 3-2, over Bellevue’s Newport, on a Dale Buske volley with 3:22 remaining at Memorial Stadium. The Hawks come from two goals down in the final 12 minutes despite losing an ejected player. Attendance for the WIAA final is 1,247.

Mueller Barons win the State Challenge Cup over Ghirardelli following an 11-round penalty kick tiebreaker at Memorial Stadium. Ghirardelli erases a 2-0 halftime deficit on goals by Kit Zell and Dave Ellis. Barons had gone ahead through Kelly Gordon and Tim Allen. Ed Tonkin scores the decisive penalty.

A commissioner-ordered replay results in an added bonus point for Seattle as it squashes Rochester, 3-0. The Lancers lodged a protest after Seattle, as usual, watered the artificial surface before kickoff of a 2-0 win on Aug. 3. On Aug. 7, NASL commissioner Phil Woosnam ordered a hasty replay. Despite the quick turnaround, traveling back from St. Louis and dry turf, the Sounders jump on top with John Rowlands heading in Hank Liotart’s cross at 29’. They score four minutes apart late in the second half, first Dave Gillett following a corner then Roy Sinclair finishing a combination from Otey Cannon.

Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announces that the boys' state AAA and AA quarterfinals, semifinals and final are moving from Seattle's Memorial Stadium. Bellevue's Sammamish High School will now host. The reasoning: Sammamish's new turf and wider field is more suited to soccer. Memorial has hosted the final since the WIAA tournament's inception in 1975.

Mike Kuczi's brace leads Rainier Brewers to a 5-1 victory over defending champion Olympia Brewing Vikings at Memorial Stadium. The Vikings, playing without injured star Bobby Hough, had won the first half of the season's first division and Rainiers had claimed the second half. Washington State won the second division and Pacific Lutheran the third tier.

In the last of 31 30-minute games, Olympia Brewery Vikings defeat Seattle Heidelbergs, 5-1, for the championship of the 29th annual Five-a-Side tournament at Memorial Stadium. Reidar Olsen scores three goals.

Seattle Sounders are returning to downtown following a one-year stay in Renton. The club, citing a need for more field availability, will go back to Memorial Stadium, its home from 1994-98 and, in the NASL era, from 1974-75. Attendance fell by 23 percent, to 2,243, in the first year of a year-to-year, three-year lease at the renovated Renton Memorial. However, the club reasoned it needs greater field access with the addition of the PDL Sounders Selects and the potential of adding a women's team.

Peppering Portland with a league-record 33 shots, FC Seattle rallies to win in overtime, 3-2, before its largest crowd in four years – 6,427. Peter Hattrup’s chip over Todd Strobeck from 15 yard in the 13th minute of extra time seals it and clinches a playoff berth. Dennis Gunnell and Eddie Henderson also find the net for the Storm.

Sounders announce that after two seasons and 17 consecutive sellouts at Memorial Stadium, they are moving to the soon-to-be-completed Kingdome. Awaiting them are modern amenities such as parking, replay screens and protection from the elements, not to mention a larger, uncrowned playing surface. There will be no increase in ticket prices.

A national TV audience descends upon Seattle for the first time as newly-signed Pele´ visits with his New York Cosmos. The Sounders bring in additional bleachers, boosting capacity to 17,925 at Memorial Stadium. Hank Liotart scores from the spot and Tommy Baldwin seals the 2-0 win.

Monsanto begins installation of Astroturf at Memorial Stadium, making it the first football and soccer facility to do so. The Seattle School Board voted to purchase the rug as a cost of $174,468. Parking concession funds will pay for the turf. Memorial also installs ‘slingshot-type’ goalposts. The first competitive event on the carpet is the Sept. 22 Metro Jamboree football games. Harvey Lanman, Metro League athletic director, had been seeking to upgrade the surface for four years. It is the first installation of Astroturf outdoors Houston’s Astrodome was the first to use it.

The first professional match played on artificial turf attracts a record crowd of 7,764 to witness Kilmarnock of the Scottish Premier League trim England's West Ham United, 2-1, at Memorial Stadium. Fans barely settled in their seats before the two sides exchanged goals in the first six minutes. Eddie Morrison's second-half header proved the difference. West Ham featured 20-year-old Trevor Brooking, plus future Sounders players and coaches Bobby Howe and Harry Redknapp.

Fueled by Rob Holmes's first-half hat trick, Federal Way's Thomas Jefferson (16-0-3) wins its first title (all-classification), 4-0 over Inglemoor at Memorial Stadium. Holmes gives the Raiders an early lead on a 3' penalty kick, then adds a header from Todd Morrow's long, upfield ball just before halftime. He finishes Larry Pifer's pass from short range at 63', and Ron Simpson adds the fourth. Lance Webber's seven saves earn the shutout.

A sellout crowd of 11,874 in Memorial Stadium cheers Seattle to a 3-0 victory over Vancouver. The Sounders finish 14-6-0 (9-1-0 at home) and finish 15 points clear of the Los Angeles Salsa. Nineteen of the 25 roster players came through Washington Youth Soccer Association. Bellevue's Chance Fry scores twice, both on assists from Issaquah's Shawn Medved. Fry finishes second in APSL goals with 11 and Medved is the co-leader in assists (11).

Five years after their birth, Reign FC leaves Memorial Stadium, drops 'Seattle' and moves to Tacoma's Cheney Stadium. Reign FC will join the Sounders' USL affiliate Defiance and AAA baseball Rainiers as a tenant. Owners Bill and Teresa Predmore also welcome new investors, including Adrian Hanauer and his mother, Lenore. Furthermore, a partnership between the soccer clubs and Tacoma-based MultiCare Health System will spearhead development of a 60,000 square-foot facility that will provide medical care to the team and the general public on the site where a proposed soccer stadium will be built.

A fireworks rocket shot into Memorial Stadium sparks an early morning (1:40 am) fire that causes $100,000 damage to the playing turf. Consequently, FC Seattle is forced to move its remaining four home games to Renton Stadium.

Former Sounders star and FC Seattle coach Bruce Rioch brings recently-promoted Middlesbrough of the English first division to Memorial Stadium to play the Storm as part of a four-match U.S. tour. Seattle wins, 2-1, on goals four minutes apart by Chance Fry and Eddie Henderson.

Ballard FC announces that Memorial Stadium will serve as its interim home in 2024. The USL League Two champions could not use Interbay Stadium due to scheduled refitting to be ADA compliant. Ballard FC may be one of the final acts to play at Memorial, opened in 1947 and due for redevelopment and reopening in 2026. It was home to the Sounders' NASL and USL eras, as well as the Seattle Reign early on.

A 40-acre piece of real estate in Kent appears to be the most likely site of a 25,000-seat stadium for a Seattle-area Major League Soccer team. Vince Coluccio, owner of the Seattle Sounders during their last gasp in the now defunct North American Soccer League, owns the Kent property and is the prospective developer. The site is just east of Interstate-5 and south of Sea-Tac Airport. Memorial Stadium and Husky Stadium are being explored as potential interim sites for a charter MLS team in Seattle. The primary drawback to Seattle's MLS bid has been the lack of a suitable stadium.

After seven years and some 1,500 events, a new Seattle Memorial Stadium artificial playing surface is installed. The second-generation Astroturf is now 64 yards wide (from 62) and features and a more advanced, 5/8-inch pad underneath. Metro League athletic director Frank Inslee also had seat backs installed before the first Sounders season. The refurbishments cost $290,000 and were paid for by rental and parking concessions from the past seven years, according to Metro League athletic director Frank Inslee.

Considered a bellwether for whether Seattle could support a team in one of the two new professional league, FA Cup runner-up Chelsea visits Memorial Stadium. The young Blues (oldest starters age 26), featuring $225,000 signing Tommy Baldwin, beat the Northwest All-Stars, 5-0, before a crowd of 6,400. The Blues get first-half goals from John Broyles, Baldwin and Joe Kirkup. Baldwin and Barry Lloyd add more in the second half. The visitors are unimpressed by the playing surface, which is less grass and mostly dirt with gravel mixed in.

Seattle Public Schools and the City of Seattle enter into discussions with One Roof Partnership to redevelop aging Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center. One Roof – comprised of the One Roof Foundation, Seattle Kraken and Oak View Group – proposes to build a new $120 million, 8,000-10,000-person capacity stadium to host student athletics, community events, arts and culture. SPS will continue to own the facility and maintain priority use. The goal is to break ground by the end of 2024 and open by May or June of 2026. The stadium’s rich history and Memorial Wall will be preserved.

Monsanto and Metro League announce sponsorship of May 9 international friendly, which will mark world's first professional match to be played on artificial turf. England's West Ham United and Scotland Kilmarnock will meet at Memorial Stadium, which installed Monsanto's AstroTurf in 1967. Proceeds will benefit creation of varsity soccer program for Metro League.

Scottish international Kim Little debuts with a brace as the Seattle Reign opens its new Memorial Stadium home by beating Boston, 3-0. Little, who arrived from Europe only 30 hours before the match, scores a penalty early in the second half and adds her second five minutes later. Megan Rapinoe closes out the scoring, and Hope Solo is credited with two saves in the shutout.

For the first time in 19 years a Sounders league match is played at Memorial Stadium as the new APSL club hosts Fort Lauderdale before the largest home crowd to date, 6,624. However, the Strikers spoil the homecoming with a 3-2 overtime win, giving Seattle consecutive defeats for the first time. The club's first six home matches had been moved to Tacoma following the Kingdome's closure due to falling ceiling tiles. The NASL Sounders played at Memorial from 1974-75 before moving to the Kingdome.

NCAA accepts Seattle Pacific’s bid to host Division II semifinals, consolation and final at Memorial Stadium. Bid includes Nile Temple Shriners committing to buy 6,000 tickets each day.

The Washington State Football Association begins charging a user fee in addition to spectator admission for weekly state league matches at Memorial Stadium. Finding that fans alone couldn't pay the rent, the WSFA institutes "Pay as You Play," charging each adult player, coach and manager $1 each and juniors 75 cents. West Seattle, White Center and Interbay are all virtually unplayable during the wet winter months, leaving no alternative to the artificial turf at Memorial.

Goals by Chris McDonald and Mark Faller in first three minutes help SPU roll to 4-1 victory over Oakland before 4,100 at Memorial Stadium, making Falcons the first Div. II champion to repeat. After the Pioneers pull back a goal before the interval, Matt Smith restores the cushion at 56' and Bob Bruch strokes a late penalty kick. Scott Cairns and Glenn Lurie play in their fourth straight NCAA championship game. McDonald finishes a Cairns header against the crossbar at 2:02, and 52 seconds later Faller doubles it.

After four seasons of winter scheduling, during which Memorial Stadium was affected by cold, rain and occasional snow, Seattle's Metro League switches to a spring schedule. It also conforms to WIAA championship schedule, set for 1975.