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The Haverford Fords men's soccer team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States. The team is a member of the Centennial Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III.
Haverford's first men's soccer team was fielded in 1901. The team plays its home games at Walton Field on the Haverford campus. The Fords are coached by Zach Ward.
History By 1900, soccer had become popular among cricket clubs in Philadelphia so they established a league. Founding members were Belmont, Germantown, Kensington, and Frankford. The popularity of the sport also attracted Haverford students, with soccer and cricket becoming the favorite sports. Richard Gummere, who had played to play soccer at England, introduced the game to Haverford College, being played at the end of cricket season. The students formed a team to play to 1902 season. The team debuted with a win to Germantown, With Dash and Spirit by William Kashatus III in a match of the recently formed "Philadelphia Cricket Clubs League", a soccer competition established by cricket clubs where the sport had increased its popularity among members.US tops Brazil, more on headers & the brain, WPS deadline, Socrates RIP by Ed Farnsworth at the Philly Soccer Page. December 5, 2011
For 1905, Gummere designated himself as captain, while Canadian Wilfred Mustard (who was a Latin professor at the college, apart from having played soccer at the University of Toronto) was appointed as coach of the team.
The Fords have the distinction of winning the first three Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association national championships, the unofficial national championship that served as the predecessor to the NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament from 1905 until 1958. The 1904–05 team is considered by some to be the first organized collegiate national championship to be won by a program.
The team would continue their early 20th century success before winning the ISFA titles in 1906, 1907, 1911 and 1918.
In 1924, the program won the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Association Football League season.
The 1945 team was undefeated. Success continued under Jimmy Mills, who was coach from 1949 to 1970. Under coach Dave Felsen, Haverford won the Middle Atlantic Conference Southern Division five times in the period from 1976 to 1982.David Felsen ’62. Hall of Fame 2017 at williston.com
The team won three more MAC South titles under Joe Amorim, who was named head coach in 1983.MEN’S SOCCER Conference Champions at gomacsports.com
Haverford won a school-record 17 games in 1992. The team became the first men's soccer program to record 700 all-time wins, in September 2002, when the team defeated Neumann 7–0.Men's Soccer History on haverfordathletics.com (archived)
Players
Current roster Men's roster 2025 at haverfordathletics.com
Coaching history Haverford has had 19 men's soccer coaches in their program's history. The most recent head coach was Zach Ward, the men's soccer coach from 2018 until February, 2023.
YearsCoach WLTPct. 1901–1908 Wilfred Mustard 64 31 25 8 .000 1908–1909 Harold Morris 11 6 3 2 .000 1909–1910 Carey Thomas 11 3 4 4 .000 1910–1912 Frank Huish 39 16 16 7 .000 1912–1913 Francis James 18 12 3 3 .000 1913–1915 James Thomas 24 12 9 3 .000 1915–1920 George Young 62 39 14 9 .000 1920–1921 Daniel Oates 21 12 7 2 .000 1922–1934 James McPete 124 71 29 24 .000 1935–1940 James Gentle 62 36 24 2 .000 1941 Edgar Redington, Jr. 10 7 2 1 .000 1942–1946 Ray Mullan 41 26 12 3 .000 1947–1948 Edgar Redington, Jr. 17 8 7 2 .000 1949–1970 Jimmy Mills 238 124 94 20 .000 1971–1977 David Felsen 99 53 39 7 .000 1978–1982 Skip Jarocki 81 43 31 7 .000 1983–2007 Joe Amorim 469 214 223 32 .000 2009–2010 Bill Brady 33 14 17 2 .000 2011–2017 Shane Rineer 138 87 38 13 .000 2018–2022 Zach Ward 37 23 10 4 .000
Titles
National Note: They were considered national titles before the establishment of the NCAA soccer tournament in 1959
ACCL (1): 1901–02 ISFA (7): 1904–05, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1908, 1911, 1915, 1917
Conference Source:Conference champions at gomacsports.com
Middle Atlantic tournament (7): 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1953, 1988 Southern Division tournament (8): 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992
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