Houston Summit

{{Short description|Defunct indoor soccer team}}

{{For|the Houston arena once known as The Summit|Lakewood Church Central Campus}}

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Houston Summit were a professional indoor soccer team that operated from 1978 to 1980. They played in the original Major Indoor Soccer League.{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Conway |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |title=Can 1836 be a hit where other soccer teams have missed? |url=http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2006/01/can-1836-be-a-hit-where-other-soccer-teams-have-missed/ |date=January 30, 2006 |accessdate=September 20, 2014 |archive-date=July 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714080811/http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2006/01/can-1836-be-a-hit-where-other-soccer-teams-have-missed/ |url-status=dead }} In 1980, the franchise was moved to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Blast. Their roster mainly included players from the Houston NASL, the Houston Hurricane.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/ |title=www.sover.net |access-date=2009-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221131255/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/ |archive-date=2009-02-21 |url-status=dead }} During the two seasons that the Summit played in Houston, the average home attendance was 2,749. The team was named for its home arena.