Harvard Crimson men's soccer

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Harvard Crimson F.C.
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Founded1905;119 years ago (1905) [1]
University Harvard University
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Stadium Jordan Field
NicknameCrimson
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Pre-tournament ISFA/ISFL championships
1913, 1914, 1926, 1930
NCAA Tournament College Cup
1969, 1971, 1986, 1987
NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals
1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1984, 1986, 1987
NCAA Tournament Round of 16
1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2009
NCAA Tournament appearances
1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Conference Regular Season championships
1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1987, 1994, 1996, 2006, 2009

The Harvard Crimson men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of Harvard University. The team is a member of the Ivy League of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. [2]

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Harvard is one of the most successful teams of the Ivy League, having won 13 championships. [3] In the pre-NCAA era, Harvard also won 4 Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA) championship titles. [4]

History

The Crimson fielded their first varsity soccer team in 1905, [1] [3] making the team one of the oldest college soccer programs in the United States, and one of the oldest continuously operating soccer programs in the United States. Most of the Crimson's success came in the mid-1910s, where they won two ISFL (the college soccer predecessor to the NCAA) championships, and again in the late 1920s to the early 1930s.

A Harvard (dark shirt) v Yale game in 1922 Harvard vs yale soccer match 1922.jpg
A Harvard (dark shirt) v Yale game in 1922

Since their 1930 ISFL title, the Crimson have failed to win a national title, although in the late 1960s and early 1970s the Crimson reached the College Cup twice. Also, in both 1986 and 1987 the Crimson reached the NCAA Division I Final Four. Their most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship came in 2009, when the Crimson reached the round of 16.

From 2013 through 2019, the Crimson were coached by Pieter Lehrer, a former assistant coach for the California Golden Bears men's soccer program. In 2014, Ross Friedman attained two all-time Harvard records with 12 season assists and 17 career assists, also ranking 6th in the NCAA in assists and 5th in assists per game. [5]

In November 2016, the team were suspended by the university after the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson published an article which indicated that team members had shared a yearly document in which they ranked new members of Harvard Crimson women's soccer team by their sex appeal and described them using sexually explicit terms. The suspension meant that they could no longer participate in any further games in the 2016 Ivy League men's soccer season (which they had been leading at the time of the suspension) or the National Collegiate Athletic Association. [6] [7] [8]

Several professional soccer players, including Shep Messing, Ross Friedman, Andre Akpan, Michael Fucito and John Catliff played for the Crimson, as well as several notable professionals outside of the soccer world. This includes Theodore Roosevelt III, Daniel Needham and John Johansen.

Team image

Historically, the Harvard soccer teams have worn white kits as their primary colors, while alternate kits have been crimson [9] or black. [10]

Players

Current roster

As of 7 Sep 2024 [11]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
0 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Nicholas WillenHear
1 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Cullen MacNeil
2 DF Flag of Iceland.svg  ISL Kristján Gunnarsson
3 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Zachary Sard
4 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ludovico Rollo
5 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Jan Riecke
6 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Sam Bjarnason
7 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Marcos Ojea
8 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ben Kelly
9 FW Flag of Norway.svg  NOR Nicholas Nyquist
10 MF Flag of Serbia.svg  SRB Marko Isakovic
11 FW Flag of Cyprus.svg  CYP Andreas Savva
12 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Rustin Khosravi
14 MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Juho Ojanen
15 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Phoenix Wooten
No.Pos.NationPlayer
16 MF Flag of Norway.svg  NOR Erik Dalaker
17 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Dylan Tellado
18 MF Flag of Slovakia.svg  SVK Matus Vician
19 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Bobby Cupps
20 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Shane Lonergan
21 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Xavier Tanyi
22 FW Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Yuta Hata
23 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Nayan Das
24 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Alexander Castel
26 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ethan Veghte
28 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Edwin Dominguez
31 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Tim Langenbahn
33 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ricardo Rollo
77 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Will Sherwood
99 GK Flag of Sweden.svg  SWE Lucian Wood

Notable alumni

First Team All-Americans

Harvard has fielded 38 first-team All-Americans. [12] Several players including Andre Akpan, John Catliff and Will Kohler had professional careers following college. [13] [14] Other notable All-Americans include John Johansen, who was part of the Harvard Five [15] and Daniel Needham, who was a future politician and commanding general for the 26th Infantry Division. [16] [17] [18]

Second Team All-Americans

Harvard has fielded 16-second-team All-Americans.

Third Team All-Americans

Harvard has fielded three third-team All-Americans.

PlayerPositionYear
Tony MarksDF1966
Nick HotchkinFW1987
Kevin Ara FW2002

Coaches

Current staff

Sources: [19]

PositionName
Head coachJosh Shapiro
Assistant coachJordie Ciuffetelli
Assistant coachBryan Harkin
Goalkeepers coachMorgan Sawyer

Historical head coaches

Sources: [3]

Notes
  1. Teams were coached by their captains.

Team honors

National championships

Title
YearClassOrganizerRecordCoach
1
1913Tournament ISFA 9–6–3Charles Burgess
2
1914TournamentISFA6–1–2Charles Burgess
3
1926TournamentISFA4–2–2Thomas B. White
4
1930TournamentISFA8–1–0John F. Carr

Conference championships

Harvard has won 13 Ivy League championships. [20] The Ivy League began sponsoring men's varsity soccer in 1955. Prior to 1955, Harvard competed as an Independent. [21]

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Harvard (in black) playing v Air Force in 2018
Title
YearConf.ClassCoachOverall
record
Conference
record
1
1955 Ivy Regular season J. Bruce Munro10–2–05–1–0
2
1958IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro10–2–15–1–1
3
1959IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro9–1–35–1–0
4
1961IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro8–2–15–1–1
5
1962IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro6–5–05–2–0
6
1963IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro8–2–06–0–0
7
1969IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro14–1–07–0–0
8
1970IvyRegular seasonJ. Bruce Munro12–1–07–0–0
9
1987IvyRegular season Mike Getman 14–1–36–0–1
10
1994IvyRegular seasonStephen Locker5–9–25–1–1
11
1996IvyRegular seasonStephen Locker16–2–06–1–0
12
2006IvyRegular season John Kerr Jr. 14–5–16–0–1
13
2009IvyRegular season Jamie Clark 14–4–15–1–1

Rivalries

Harvard athletics have a longstanding rivalry with Yale across all sports since 1875, [22] [23] [24] [25] and it also translates to the men's soccer programs.

Both programs have faced each other on an annual basis since 1907. [26] [27] [28] As of Nov 2023, the Crimson lead the series against the Bulldogs 54–42–13. [29]

See also

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