While other youth teams grew in prominence by mid-century, the Lighthouse was still winning national championships into the late 1960s.
In 1893, Esther W. Kelly transformed a northern Philadelphia house into a community center.
This club produced some of the greatest U.S. players of the early twentieth century and won five James P. McGuire Cups (U-19 national championship).
The Lighthouse began to decline in the 1980s but the soccer team continues to play today.
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