Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

The NCAA held its first men's National Collegiate Soccer Championship in 1959, with eight teams selected for the tournament. Before 1959, national champions were selected by a committee of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA) based on season records and competition. In addition, the College Soccer Bowl tournament was held from 19501952 (following the 19491951 seasons) for the purpose of deciding a national champion on the field. The Soccer Bowl was a one-site competition involving four teams selected by college soccer administrators. However, the ISFA committee continued to select the national champion in those three years (in 1950 selecting as champion a team that did not participate in the second Soccer Bowl).[1]

Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
AbbreviationISFA
PredecessorIntercollegiate Soccer Football League
Founded1905 (1905)
Dissolved1958 (1958)
Legal statusAssociation
Region served
United States and Canada
Membership
50 schools

History

College soccer started in Northeast colleges and at private schools in the late 19th century, while club soccer was mostly played in the Midwest and the South. In the West, Stanford started up a soccer program in 1911, University of San Francisco in 1932, and UCLA in 1937, playing largely amateur teams. In 1945, at the end of the world war, the ISFA had only 22 member college teams.[2] This grew to over 50 by 1947.

From 1905 through 1925, the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League (an Ivy League forerunner) determined an annual champion in College soccer. The league was dissolved after the 1925 season when Harvard and Yale threatened to resign citing dissatisfaction with the organization and scheduling saying its took players away from their educational studies too frequently. The former league pledged to create a new representative soccer association that could help govern the sport at a collegiate level. Soon after the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association was born offering an annual Outstanding Soccer Team award, the mythical national soccer championship, through 1935 and from 1946 through 1958.[3][4]

Member Schools

Member Schools
Year JoinedTeam
Haverford
Yale
Columbia
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
1926Penn State
Navy
Cornell
West Chester
1931Springfield
San Francisco
Temple
Franklin & Marshall
Swarthmore
Lehigh
Dartmouth
1931Brown
1931M.I.T.
1928Lafayette

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ISFL / ISFA College Soccer National Champions

College champions were determined by various methods over the years as listed below.[1] They are all considered unofficial.

19051925: Champion of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League
19261935: Determined by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
19361940: No selection by ISFA. Listed are outstanding teams that claim a share of the championship.
19411945: No selection by ISFA. Intercollegiate soccer was severely curtailed by world war.
19461958: Determined by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
19491951: Seasons for which Soccer Bowl was played (two of these were played early the following year)
College Soccer National Champions
YearChampion
1905Haverford
1906Haverford
1907Haverford
1908Haverford, Yale
1909Columbia
1910Columbia
1911Haverford
1912Yale
1913Harvard
1914Penn, Harvard
1915Haverford
1916Penn
1917Haverford
1918no competition
1919Penn
1920Penn
1921Princeton
1922Princeton
1923Penn
1924Penn
1925Princeton
1926Penn State, Princeton, Harvard
1927Princeton
1928Yale
1929Penn State
1930Penn, Yale, Harvard
1931Penn
1932Penn, Navy
1933Penn State, Penn
1934Cornell
1935Yale
1936Penn State, Princeton, West Chester, Syracuse
1937Penn State, Princeton, Springfield
1938Penn State
1939Penn State, Princeton
1940Penn State
1941No selection
1942No selection
1943No selection
1944No selection
1945Haverford
1946Springfield
1947Springfield
1948Connecticut
1949Penn State, San Francisco (a)
1950West Chester (b)
1951Temple (c)
1952Franklin & Marshall
1953Temple
1954Penn State
1955Penn State, Brockport
1956Trinity
1957Springfield, City College of New York
1958Drexel
(a) Soccer Bowl: Penn State tied San Francisco 2-2.
(b) Soccer Bowl: Penn State defeated Purdue 3-1.
(c) Soccer Bowl: Temple defeated San Francisco 2-0
Sources: [6]

ISFL / ISFA Team Championship Records

TeamChampionshipsWinning Years
Penn State111926, 1929, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1949, 1954, 1955
Penn101914, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933
Princeton91921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940
Haverford71905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1915, 1917
Yale51908, 1912, 1928, 1930, 1935
Harvard41913, 1914, 1926, 1930
Springfield41937, 1946, 1947, 1957
Columbia21909, 1910
Temple21951, 1953
West Chester21936, 1950
Navy11932
Cornell11934
Syracuse11936
Connecticut11948
San Francisco11949
Franklin & Marshall11952
Brockport11955
Trinity11956
City College of New York11957
Drexel11958

See also

References

  1. "The American Soccer History Archives: NCAA College Soccer Championships". Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  2. "The Year in American Soccer 1947". Archived from the original on 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  3. "Penn State Collegian". Vol. 21, no. 31. Penn State Collegian. 19 January 1926. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  4. "COLLEGES ORGANIZE A NEW SOCCER BODY; Old League Members Reunite Under Different Schedule Rules and Ask Others to Join". The New York Times. January 12, 1926. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. "6-Year Standings of College Soccer". 15 December 1931. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  6. "New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, May 1, 1908, Image 5". New-York tribune. 1 May 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
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