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Vernon Reese
1957 Inductee
1958
Founder of the Baltimore Catholic Youth Organization Soccer League
1938
Founded the Weekly Soccer Clinic at Paterson Park
Home States
Maryland
A legendary teacher of the game in Baltimore. In 1938, after the end of his playing days, Reese opened a soccer clinic at Paterson Park in Baltimore that operated 52 Sundays a year for the next 44 years. Reese also started the Baltimore Catholic Youth Organization soccer league in 1958 and watched it grow from eight teams to 160 over the following 25 years. Inducted in 1957.