The Dartmouth Big Green men's soccer program represents the Dartmouth College in all NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions. Founded in 1915, the Big Green compete in the Ivy League. The Big Green are coached by Bo Oshoniyi, who has coached the program since 2018. The Big Green plays their home matches at Burnham Field, on the Dartmouth campus.
History Dartmouth's soccer origins can be traced to the Old division football, a medieval football game played from the 1820s to around 1890 by Dartmouth students. The game involved unlimited sides made up variously of the members of the two literary societies on campus. Every year a special match sometimes called the "Usual Game of Foot Ball" occurred early in the fall in which the sophomores took on the freshmen."OLD DIVISION FOOTBALL" article by E. O. Locke '70 (originally published DECEMBER 1929) on dartmouthalumnimagazine.com
The university fielded its first soccer team in 1915, achieving a 1–1–0 record. Dartmouth participated in the national championships organised by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA),Haverford College Men's Soccer. All-time Game Results at haverfordathletics.com (archived) the predecessor national soccer championship to the NCAA soccer tournament.
The team won its first Ivy League championship in 1964, with a 5–2–0 record.Ivy League year by year at dartmouthsports.com As conference champions, Dartmouth earned their place at the 1964 NCAA soccer tournament, but lost in first round v Trinity 2–1.
Players
Current roster 2025 roster on dartmouthsports.com
Individuals honors
All-Americans coaches Number of awards won, in brackets:Men's Soccer All-Time All-Ivy, All-America at dartmouthsports.com
Year Player(s) 1941 Richard Geppart, Gordon Smith 1943 Charles Stebbins 1944 Jim Osborne Jr., Robert Roberts, Herbert Van Ingen 1946 Al Bildner, Leland Fancher 1950 Jackson Hall 1951 Jackson Hall (2) 1952 Jackson Hall (3), John Rice 1953 Bob Drawbaugh, Carl Hirsch 1958 David Blake 1962 Robert Mattoon, David Smoyer 1967 Leon Myrianthopoulos 1968 Charles Silcox
Year Player(s) 1969 Charles Silcox (2) 1979 Paul Mott 1990 Danny Sankar, John Milne 1991 John Milne (2) 1992 Justin Head 1994 Ian Saward 1998 Bobby Meyer 2008 Craig Henderson 2009 Daniel Keat 2016 Wyatt Omsberg 2017 Wyatt Omsberg (2)
Ivy League honors The following Dartmouth men's soccer players and coaches have earned Ivy League individual honors.
Players of the Year Year Player 1998 Doug MacGinnitie 1992 Justin Head 2008 Craig Henderson 2011 Lucky Mkosana 2015 Stefan Cleveland 2016 Wyatt Omsberg 2017 Wyatt Omsberg (2)
Rookies of the Year Year Player 1988 John Milne 1992 David Moran 2000 Matt LaBarre 2002 Doug Carr 2008 Lucky Mkosana 2015 Amadu Kunateh 2017 Dawson McCartney
Coaches of the Year Year Player 2014 Chad Riley 2015 Chad Riley (2) 2017 Chad Riley (3)
Coaching history and records There have been 11 coaches in Dartmouth Soccer's history.
# Coach Tenure 1 W.C. Hubert1919–19202430.571 2 J.C. Roule1921–19233781.469 3 Thomas Dent1924–19593514311122.558 4 Whitey Burnham1960–19691045575.444 5 George Beim1970–1973411305.2936 Thomas Griffith1974–198411557818.424 7 Bobby Clark1985–19939824213.646 8 Fran O'Leary1994–20007564814.537 9 Jeff Cook2001–2012121067431.57610 Chad Riley2013–20174512614.63711 Bo Oshoniyi2018–present1755
Titles
Conference Ivy League (12): 1964, 1988, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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