1972 NCAA College Division soccer tournament

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1972 NCAA College Division soccer tournament
1972 College Division College Cup
Tournament details
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Teams24
Final positions
Champions SIU Edwardsville (1st title)
Runner-up Oneonta (1st title game)
Tournament statistics
Matches played23
Goals scored88 (3.83 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)N/A
Best player John Stremlau [1] (offense)
Farrukh Quraishi (defense)
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The 1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship (then named the NCAA College Division Men's Soccer Championship) was the inaugural Division II men's college soccer tournament held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since 1959, all schools had competed in a single division. The SIU Edwardsville Cougars won their first NCAA title in any sport by defeating the Oneonta Red Dragons in the championship game, 1-0. The final match was played on December 9, 1972, in Edwardsville, Illinois, at SIUE's Cougar Field, which also hosted the Division I College Cup in 1970 and 1975. [2] [3]

Contents

Qualifying

Early rounds

First roundSecond roundQuarterfinalsSemifinalsChampionship
Bridgeport 1
New Haven 0 Bridgeport 0
Springfield 2(2OT)Springfield1
Hartford 1 Springfield 1
Hartwick 2(2OT)Oneonta2
Brockport 1 Hartwick 0
Adelphi 0 Oneonta3
Oneonta 6Oneonta6
Chico State 0
Cal State Fullerton 6
San Francisco State 1
Cal State Fullerton 0
Chico State1
Chico State 3
Seattle Pacific 2
Oneonta 0
East Stroudsburg State 2(2OT)SIU Edwardsville 1
Montclair State 1 East Stroudsburg State2(2OT)
Muhlenberg 5Muhlenberg 1
Philadelphia Textile 4 East Stroudsburg 0
South Florida 1(OT)Baltimore3
Madison College 0 South Florida 0
Baltimore 7Baltimore1
Loyola Maryland 1 Baltimore 1
SIU Edwardsville 4
UMSL 2
Akron 6
Akron 2
SIU Edwardsville3
Eastern Illinois 0
SIU Edwardsville 3

Final

SIU Edwardsville 1–0 Oneonta
Chris Carenza Soccerball shade.svg52' (Driscoll) Report
Cougar Field , Edwardsville, Illinois
Attendance: 3,000 (est.)

Division change

1972 was the only year that this tournament was known as the "College Division Men's Soccer Championship." In 1973, the NCAA renamed the University Division as Division I and the College Division as Division II.

Several of the teams in the new Division II that placed a high emphasis on their soccer programs, including both SIUE and Oneonta, moved to Division I after only one season, taking advantage of a then-current NCAA rule that allowed a Division II school to play one sport in Division I and a Division I school to play one sport in Division II. As a result, seven of the twenty-four teams in the 1972 College Division tournament were among the twenty-four teams in the 1973 Division I tournament. [4] [5]

NCAA Men's Soccer Teams that were in 1972 College Division Tournament & 1973 Division I Tournament
SchoolSchool's current nameCurrent Division
University of Bridgeport SameII
Hartwick College SameIII
Madison College James Madison University I
Oneonta State University College of Education State University of New York at Oneonta III
Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science Thomas Jefferson University II
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Southern Illinois University Edwardsville I
University of South Florida SameI

Although four of the seven teams have since stepped down to a lower division, five other schools in the 1972 tournament have since moved up to Division I. These are: Akron, Cal State Fullerton, Eastern Illinois, Hartford, and Loyola Maryland. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Flashbart, Harold (December 10, 1972). "Cougars Take U.S. Crown". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 1-E. Retrieved September 18, 2018– via newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Men's Division II Championship Brackets" (PDF). NCAA. p. 49.
  3. ↑ "Men's Soccer Division II History" (PDF). NCAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's Division I Championship Brackets" (PDF). NCAA. p. 13.
  5. ↑ "Men's Division II Championship Brackets" (PDF). NCAA. pp. 49 & 50.
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