Harvard Crimson men's soccer

For the women's team, see Harvard Crimson women's soccer.

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.^[3]

Harvard Crimson men's soccer
Founded	1905; 120 years ago (1905)[1]
University	Harvard University
Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Stadium	Jordan Field (Capacity: 4,100)
Nickname	Crimson
Colors	Crimson, white, and black[2]
Home Away
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

Harvard is one of the most successful teams of the Ivy League, having won 13 championships.^[4] In the pre-NCAA era, Harvard also won 4 Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA) championship titles.^[5]

History

The Crimson fielded their first varsity soccer team in 1905,^[1][4] 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

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.^[6]

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.^[7][8][9]

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^[10] or black.^[11]

Players

Current roster

As of 7 Sep 2024^[12]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Nicholas WillenHear 1 GK  USA Cullen MacNeil 2 DF  ISL Kristján Gunnarsson 3 DF  USA Zachary Sard 4 DF  USA Ludovico Rollo 5 DF  GER Jan Riecke 6 MF  USA Sam Bjarnason 7 FW  USA Marcos Ojea 8 MF  USA Ben Kelly 9 FW  NOR Nicholas Nyquist 10 MF  SRB Marko Isakovic 11 FW  CYP Andreas Savva 12 DF  USA Rustin Khosravi 14 MF  FIN Juho Ojanen 15 MF  USA Phoenix Wooten

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  NOR Erik Dalaker 17 MF  USA Dylan Tellado 18 MF  SVK Matus Vician 19 MF  USA Bobby Cupps 20 MF  USA Shane Lonergan 21 FW  USA Xavier Tanyi 22 FW  JPN Yuta Hata 23 DF  USA Nayan Das 24 DF  USA Alexander Castel 26 MF  USA Ethan Veghte 28 DF  USA Edwin Dominguez 31 DF  USA Tim Langenbahn 33 DF  USA Ricardo Rollo 77 GK  USA Will Sherwood 99 GK  SWE Lucian Wood

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Harvard Crimson men's soccer players

• John Catliff (1983–86)
• Shep Messing (1970–71)
• Ross Friedman (2010–13)

First Team All-Americans

Harvard has fielded 38 first-team All-Americans.^[13] Several players including Andre Akpan, John Catliff and Will Kohler had professional careers following college.^[14][15] Other notable All-Americans include John Johansen, who was part of the Harvard Five^[16] and Daniel Needham, who was a future politician and commanding general for the 26th Infantry Division.^[17][18][19]

Player Pos. Year Lester Cushing DF 1909 Frank Leland FW 1909 Elwyn Barron DF 1910, 1912 Harry Byng FW 1911, 1912 Brayton Nichols GK 1912 Eugene McCall MF 1912 Daniel Needham GK 1912 Henry Francke MF 1913 Francis Grant MF 1913 Walter Weld FW 1913, 1914, 1915 J. Coleman Jennings FW 1914 Richard Cooke FW 1916 John Sullivan DF 1922 Randolph Heizer FW 1922

Player Pos. Year Walter Pattison DF 1924 Joseph MacKinnon MF 1925 Laurence Driggs FW 1925 Richard Thomas GK 1926 John Faude GK 1930 John Bland MF 1930 Harvard Broadbent FW 1932 Theodore Robie DF 1935 John Dorman MF 1935 James Wood FW 1935 Bernard Jacobsen MF 1939 John Johansen FW 1939

Player Pos. Year Richard Gifford MF 1942 Charley Ufford DF 1952 Langley Keyes FW 1959 Marsh McCall MF 1959 Tom Bagnoli GK 1962 Chris Ohiri FW 1963 Solomon Gomez FW 1969, 1970 Chris Wilmot DF 1969, 1970 Chris Papagianis FW 1972 John Catliff FW 1986 Will Kohler FW 1996 Andre Akpan FW 2008, 2009

Second Team All-Americans

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

Player Pos. Year Carl Chadwick FW 1909 C. M. Browne GK 1911 Quincy Greene FW 1911 Morris Hallowell MF 1912 Kenneth Crooks DF 1926 John Bland MF 1928 Alex Stollmeyer DF 1929

Player Pos. Year Paul Catinella DF 1930 John Carrigan FW 1930 Theodore Roosevelt III MF 1934 George Stork FW 1935 Charles Weiss DF 1949 Andy Kydes MF 1966 Phil Kydes FW 1971 Andre Akpan FW 2007 Mike Fucito FW 2007, 2008

Third Team All-Americans

Harvard has fielded three third-team All-Americans.

Player	Position	Year
Tony Marks	DF	1966
Nick Hotchkin	FW	1987
Kevin Ara	FW	2002

Coaches

Current staff

Sources:^[20]

Position	Name
Head coach	Josh Shapiro
Assistant coach	Jordie Ciuffetelli
Assistant coach	Bryan Harkin
Goalkeepers coach	Morgan Sawyer

Historical head coaches

Sources:^[4]

Year Name Sea. Record 1905–10 (no coach)[n 1] 6 9-19-5 1911–16, 1921 Charles Burgess 7 54-33-10 1922–23 William R. Welsh 2 5-12-1 1924–26 Thomas B. White 3 9-11-4 1927–28 John Kershaw 2 9-9-3 1929–40 John F. Carr 12 63-22-19 1941–47 James McDonald 7 18-12-6 1948–73 J. Bruce Munro 26 180-87-27 1974–81 George Ford 8 47-51-15

Year Name Sea. Record 1982–86 Jape Shattuck 5 44-29-8 1987–91 Mike Getman 5 42-26-9 1992–98 Stephen Locker 7 54-45-13 1999–2007 John Kerr 9 81-59-13 2008–09 Jamie Clark 2 26-10-1 2010–12 Carl Junot 3 6-30-11 2013–19 Pieter Lehrer 7 42-58-13 2020–present Josh Shapiro 4 22-14-14

Notes

1. Teams were coached by their captains.

Team honors

National championships

Title n°	Year	Class	Organizer	Record	Coach
1	1913	Tournament	ISFA	9–6–3	Charles Burgess
2	1914	Tournament	ISFA	6–1–2	Charles Burgess
3	1926	Tournament	ISFA	4–2–2	Thomas B. White
4	1930	Tournament	ISFA	8–1–0	John F. Carr

Conference championships

Harvard has won 13 Ivy League championships.^[21] The Ivy League began sponsoring men's varsity soccer in 1955. Prior to 1955, Harvard competed as an Independent.^[22]

Harvard (in black) playing v Air Force in 2018

Title n°	Year	Conf.	Class	Coach	Overall record	Conference record
1	1955	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	10–2–0	5–1–0
2	1958	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	10–2–1	5–1–1
3	1959	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	9–1–3	5–1–0
4	1961	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	8–2–1	5–1–1
5	1962	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	6–5–0	5–2–0
6	1963	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	8–2–0	6–0–0
7	1969	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	14–1–0	7–0–0
8	1970	Ivy	Regular season	J. Bruce Munro	12–1–0	7–0–0
9	1987	Ivy	Regular season	Mike Getman	14–1–3	6–0–1
10	1994	Ivy	Regular season	Stephen Locker	5–9–2	5–1–1
11	1996	Ivy	Regular season	Stephen Locker	16–2–0	6–1–0
12	2006	Ivy	Regular season	John Kerr Jr.	14–5–1	6–0–1
13	2009	Ivy	Regular season	Jamie Clark	14–4–1	5–1–1

Rivalries

Main article: Harvard–Yale soccer rivalry

Harvard athletics have a longstanding rivalry with Yale across all sports since 1875,^{[23][24][25][26]} and it also translates to the men's soccer programs.

Both programs have faced each other on an annual basis since 1907.^[27][28][29] As of Nov 2023, the Crimson lead the series against the Bulldogs 54–42–13.^[30]

See also

• Harvard Crimson