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Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
Sport organization in the U.S.
Sport organization in the U.S.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Intercollegiate Soccer |
| Football Association | |
| abbreviation | ISFA |
| predecessor | Intercollegiate Soccer Football League |
| founded | 1905 |
| dissolved | |
| status | Association |
| region_served | United States and Canada |
| membership | 50 schools |
Football Association The Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (abbreviated ISFA) was a sports governing body that ruled the practice of college soccer in the United States from 1905 to 1958.
Before the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) held its first men's National Collegiate Soccer Championship in 1959, national champions were selected by a committee of the ISFA based on season records and competition. In addition, the College Soccer Bowl tournament was held from 1950–1952 (following the 1949–1951 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).
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. 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 it 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.
Member Schools
Source:
| Team | City | Joined |
|---|---|---|
| Brown | Providence, RI | 1931 |
| Columbia | New York, NY | |
| Cornell | Ithaca, NY | |
| Dartmouth | Hanover, NH | |
| Franklin & Marshall | Lancaster, PA | |
| Harvard | Cambridge, MA | |
| Haverford | Haverford, PA | |
| Lafayette | Easton, PA | 1928 |
| Lehigh | Bethlehem, PA | |
| MIT | Cambridge, MA | 1931 |
| Navy | Annapolis, MD | |
| Penn | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Princeton | Princeton, NJ | |
| Penn State | Centre County, PA | 1926 |
| San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | |
| Springfield | Springfield, MA | 1931 |
| Swarthmore | Swarthmore, PA | |
| Temple | Philadelphia, PA | |
| West Chester | West Chester, PA | |
| Yale | New Haven, CT |
ISFL / ISFA National Champions
College champions were determined by various methods over the years as listed below. They are all considered unofficial.
- 1904–1925: Champion of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League
- 1926–1935: Determined by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
- 1936–1940: No selection by ISFA. Listed are outstanding teams that claim a share of the championship.
- 1941–1945: No selection by ISFA. Intercollegiate soccer was severely curtailed by world war.
- 1946–1958: Determined by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
- 1949–1951: Seasons for which Soccer Bowl was played (two of these were played early the following year)
thumb|1928 team of Princeton holding a ball with the legend "1927 champions"
| Ed. | Season | Champion | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904–05 | Haverford (1) | ||
| 1905–06 | Haverford (2) | ||
| 1906–07 | Haverford (3) | ||
| 1908 | Haverford (4) | ||
| Yale (1) | |||
| 1909 | Columbia (1) | ||
| 1910 | Columbia (2) | ||
| 1911 | Haverford (5) | ||
| 1912 | Yale (2) | ||
| 1913 | Harvard (1) | ||
| 1914 | Penn (1) | ||
| Harvard (2) | |||
| 1915 | Haverford (6) | ||
| 1916 | Penn (2) | ||
| 1917 | Haverford (7) | ||
| 1918 | no competition held | ||
| 1919 | Penn (3) | ||
| 1920 | Penn (4) | ||
| 1921 | Princeton (1) | ||
| 1922 | Princeton (2) | ||
| 1923 | Penn (5) | ||
| 1924 | Penn (6) | ||
| 1925 | Princeton (3) | ||
| 1926 | Penn State (1) | ||
| Princeton (4) | |||
| Harvard (3) | |||
| 1927 | Princeton (5) | ||
| 1928 | Yale (3) | ||
| 1929 | Penn State (2) | ||
| 1930 | Penn (7) | ||
| Yale (4) | |||
| Harvard (4) | |||
| 1931 | Penn (8) | ||
| 1932 | Penn (9) | ||
| Navy (1) | |||
| 1933 | Penn State (3) | ||
| Penn (10) | |||
| 1934 | Cornell (1) | ||
| 1935 | Yale (5) | ||
| 1936 | Penn State (4) | ||
| Princeton (6) | |||
| West Chester | (1) | ||
| Syracuse (1) | |||
| 1937 | Penn State (5) | ||
| Princeton (7) | |||
| Springfield (1) | |||
| 1938 | Penn State (6) | ||
| 1939 | Penn State (7) | ||
| Princeton (8) | |||
| 1940 | Penn State (8) | ||
| 1941 | No selection | ||
| 1942 | No selection | ||
| 1943 | No selection | ||
| 1944 | No selection | ||
| 1945 | Haverford (8) | ||
| 1946 | Springfield (2) | ||
| 1947 | Springfield (3) | ||
| 1948 | Connecticut (1) | ||
| 1949 | Penn State (9) | ||
| San Francisco (1) | |||
| 1950 | West Chester (2) | ||
| 1951 | Temple (1) | ||
| 1952 | Franklin & Marshall (1) | ||
| 1953 | Temple (2) | ||
| 1954 | Penn State (10) | ||
| 1955 | Penn State (11) | ||
| Brockport (1) | |||
| 1956 | Trinity (1) | ||
| 1957 | Springfield (4) | ||
| City College of New York (1) | |||
| 1958 | Drexel (1) |
Soccer Bowl
| Ed. | Season | Champion | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Penn State (1) | |||
| San Francisco (1) | ||||
| 1950 | Penn State (2) | Purdue | ||
| 1951 | Temple (1) | San Francisco |
;Notes
- Source:
ISFL / ISFA titles by team
| Team | Titles | Winning Years |
|---|---|---|
| Penn State | 1926, 1929, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1949, 1954, 1955 | |
| Penn | 1914, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 | |
| Princeton | 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, 1937, 1939 | |
| Haverford | 1904–05, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1908, 1911, 1915, 1917 | |
| Yale | 1908, 1912, 1928, 1930, 1935 | |
| Harvard | 1913, 1914, 1926, 1930 | |
| Springfield | 1937, 1946, 1947, 1957 | |
| Columbia | 1909, 1910 | |
| Temple | 1951, 1953 | |
| West Chester | 1936, 1950 | |
| Navy | 1932 | |
| Cornell | 1934 | |
| Syracuse | 1936 | |
| Connecticut | 1948 | |
| San Francisco | 1949 | |
| Franklin & Marshall | 1952 | |
| Brockport | 1955 | |
| Trinity | 1956 | |
| City College of New York | 1957 | |
| Drexel | 1958 |
References
References
- "The American Soccer History Archives: NCAA College Soccer Championships".
- "The Year in American Soccer – 1947".
- (19 January 1926). "Penn State Collegian". Penn State Collegian.
- (January 12, 1926). "COLLEGES ORGANIZE A NEW SOCCER BODY; Old League Members Reunite Under Different Schedule Rules and Ask Others to Join.". [[The New York Times]].
- (15 December 1931). "6-Year Standings of College Soccer".
- (1 May 1908). "New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, May 1, 1908, Image 5". New-York tribune.
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