100 – Peter Millar
Date: Oct. 21, 1968
Result: 2-5 L at Haiti (Friendly)
The U.S. Men’s National Team played its first game in 1916. With less matches and more gaps between games back then, it would take 52 years for the team to score 100 goals.
The MNT’s centurion scorer was Peter Millar (bottom row, second from left), who recorded the second in a 5-2 friendly defeat to Haiti on Oct. 21, 1968 in Port-au-Prince. A star in the American Soccer League, Millar’s strike that day also brought him into a tie with Bill Looby and Bert Patenaude as the MNT’s joint all-time leading scorers with six goals. Yes, six.
The first MNT player to record two hat tricks, Millar finished his international career as the USA’s leading scorer with nine goals. Teammate Willy Roy joined him as the team’s joint-leading scorer the following year, a record that would be held until 1990.
