A hat trick from Reidar Olsen helps propel Seattle’s Loyal Realty to an 8-0 win over Portland Germania as Washington retains the Northwest championship. Matti Niemela and Fred Kristiansen score two goals apiece at Lower Woodland. Washington holds bragging rights over Oregon for the 12th straight year.

A combination of Germania’s thrashing of Fort Lewis and United Hungarian good fortune clinches the first half state league championship. Germania (6-1-0), after winning the second half of 1962-63, defeat Fort Lewis away, 6-3, behind Heinz Ritter's hat trick. Meanwhile, Heinrich Bruenig's counterattack score for United Hungarians eliminates Loyal Realty with a game remaining. Ritter leads the league with 14 goals.

Seattle Parks Department approves configuration for Interbay sports facility. The $100,000 project features the city’s first dedicated soccer field. Other sports will not be allowed on the pitch, to be built upon the northern portion of the old sanitary landfill.

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.

Richmond Highland Warriors win the second half title and with it the state junior league championship by drawing, 3-3, with Wallingford Green. Richmond also won the first half.

St. George gets a second-half goal from Jim Lester to edge St. Anne, 1-0, to claim a fourth straight CYO Cadet championship in a replay at Lower Woodland. The two teams tied 3-3 Nov. 28 following two 15-minute overtime periods. Bill Miller scored two in regulation for St. Anne. St. Joseph wins Midget title, 7-0, over Assumption.

Loyal Realty follows its state league title with a win over the surprising University of Washington A team in the Five-a-Side final at West Seattle Stadium. Matti Niemela scores the final's only goal. Twenty teams played 19 15-minute games. Washington’s team consisted of young players from Turkey, England, Israel, Spain and Mexico, with Dick Aguirre, a UW football star, being the latter.

The biggest crowd of the season sees Germania become the first German team to win a state league trophy with a 3-2 comeback win over Loyal Realty to clinch the second half crown at Lower Woodland. The Vikings (6-2-0) cancel out Bert Lerch's opener with early second period goals by Fred Kristianson and Matti Niemela. Walter Schmetzer knots it and Heinz Ritter fires home from 25 yards with two minutes left for the Germania (7-1-0) winner.

After running roughshod over the state league for two seasons, Seattle Hungarians’ first season in the Pacific Coast League is only good enough for sixth (5-11-4). Hungarians are the only U.S. entry in the eight-team PCL.

Germania Club of state first division offers a public screening of the epic 1960 European Cup final at the German House on Seattle’s Ninth Avenue. For nearly everyone who attends it is the first viewing of the 10-goal classic won by Real Madrid, 7-3 over Eintracht Frankfurt, before 127,00 at Glasgow’s Hampden Park.

Washington draws, 1-1, with British Columbia at Lower Woodland, completing a seven-game season (3-2-2) exclusively versus collegiate opposition from Canada (UBC, Victoria and Royal Roads) and Oregon (Portland State).

Former Buchan star Merle Mjelde, 36, scores six goals for Black Watch Thistle in a state second division, 9-4 win over Frank’s U-Serve. Black Watch, who feature a black and green tartan in their strip, are sponsored by the Black Watch Regiment, whose band and pipers regularly play at local events. George Goers, a state league veteran like Mjelde, scores two. Mjelde achieves another six-goal game two weeks later.

Behind the two goals of Fred Kristianson, first-half winners Loyal Realty beat second-half victors Germania, 3-0, for the first division championship and the Puget Sound Power Cup. Reidar Olson completes the scoring in the second half.

Les Fabri opens the scoring in the 35th minute and Mike Kuczi’s 30-yard blast midway through the second half seals it as the PCL Hungarians avert a Germania upset in the Knockout Cup final, 2-0. Willi Lindner makes a diving stop of Germania's Peter DiValentine before Fabri strikes on a header from Tommy Major.

Mike Kuczi’s last-gasp equalizer gives the Seattle Hungarians their fifth draw in 10 games to open the Pacific Coast League campaign. They Magyars catch North Shore, 1-1, at White Center to stay in fourth place (2-3-5). Tommy Major’s penalty kick midway through the second half hits the post. Steve Furjesi, fouled prior to the penalty, crosses to Kuczi to knock home from 5 yards.

A Pacific Coast League between the Hungarians and Victoria United is abandoned with three minutes remaining due to a melee. Police responded and escorted the officials from the field after the referee was allegedly attacked by a Seattle player while a linesman was reportedly struck by a fan. Victoria had been leading, 4-1, at the time play was halted. One member of the Hungarians was later suspended indefinitely and charged with assault.

Fort Lewis withdraws from state league’s first division after seven games. The Soldiers are unable to field a team following mass reassignments and deployment of personnel, many of them part of escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The sudden subtraction prompts league officials to suggest that Black Watch Thistle move up from the second flight, however they refuse.

Bill Miller’s three goals in a 4-1 second leg away victory are the difference as Seattle’s CYO All-Stars retain the Oldershaw Cup in the annual series with British Columbia’s North Shore. The aggregate score is 6-1. Seattle had won the home leg, 2-0, two weeks earlier on scores from Miller and Mike Langdon.

Play is postponed throughout the state league and the Hungarians’ PCL match is also called off as the nation mourns the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas two days earlier.