Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association

The Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association 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 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 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.

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 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

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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.
[file:Princeton soccer team 1928-29.jpg|thumb|1928 team of Princeton holding a ball with the legend "1927 champions"]

Ed.	Season	Champion
1	1904–05	Haverford
2	1905–06	Haverford
3	1906–07	Haverford
4	1908	Haverford
4	1908	Yale
5	1909	Columbia
6	1910	Columbia
7	1911	Haverford
8	1912	Yale
9	1913	Harvard
10	1914	Penn
10	1914	Harvard
11	1915	Haverford
12	1916	Penn
13	1917	Haverford
–	1918	no competition held
14	1919	Penn
15	1920	Penn
16	1921	Princeton
17\|	1922	Princeton
18	1923	Penn
19	1924	Penn
20	1925	Princeton
21	1926	Penn State
21	1926	Princeton
21	1926	Harvard
22	1927	Princeton
23	1928	Yale
24	1929	Penn State
25	1930	Penn
25	1930	Yale
25	1930	Harvard
26	1931	Penn
27	1932	Penn
27	1932	Navy
28	1933	Penn State
28	1933	Penn
29	1934	Cornell
30	1935	Yale
31	1936	Penn State
31	1936	Princeton
31	1936
31	1936	Syracuse
32	1937	Penn State
32	1937	Princeton
32	1937	Springfield
33	1938	Penn State
34	1939	Penn State
34	1939	Princeton
35	1940	Penn State
–	1941	No selection
–	1942	No selection
–	1943	No selection
–	1944	No selection
36	1945	Haverford
37	1946	Springfield
38	1947	Springfield
39	1948	Connecticut
40	1949	Penn State
40	1949	San Francisco
41	1950	West Chester
42	1951	Temple
43	1952	Franklin & Marshall
44	1953	Temple
45	1954	Penn State
46	1955	Penn State
46	1955	Brockport
47	1956	Trinity
48	1957	Springfield
48	1957	City College of New York
49	1958	Drexel

Soccer Bowl

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