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Haverford Fords

April 14, 2023

For the Fords of Haverford School, see Haverford School § Athletics.

The Haverford Fords compete at the NCAA Division III level in the Centennial Conference. The program has a modest history in collegiate athletics. Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States. Its men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division. The outdoor track and field team won the first 16 Centennial Conference championships, and men's cross country has won all but two Centennial Conference championships. The soccer team is among the nation's oldest, having won its first intercollegiate match in 1905 against Harvard College. The lacrosse team has placed well nationally in the NCAA championships, while Haverford's fencing team has competed since the early 1930s.

Haverford Fords
UniversityHaverford College
ConferenceCentennial Conference
NCAADivision III
Athletic directorDanielle Lynch
LocationHaverford, Pennsylvania
Varsity teams23
(10 male, 12 female, 1 co-ed)[1]
MascotBlack squirrel (official)[2]
ColorsRed and black[3]
   
Websitewww.haverfordathletics.com

Athletic teams

Tennis

Haverford has a long tradition of producing great tennis players. Recently, the team has been known for recruiting the most athletes from the state of Hawaii out of all NCAA varsity athletic teams.[citation needed] Ann Koger was the longtime coach of the women's team from 1981 to 2016.[4]

Cricket

Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States, and ESPN Magazine has called Haverford "the epicenter of Philadelphia's cricket craze".[5] The team, which was started in 1833, is generally accepted as the first cricket club exclusively for Americans.[6] Haverford has a strong rivalry with the University of Pennsylvania's club team. The first match in this series was played in 1864 and has been believed to be the third-oldest intercollegiate contest in America, after the 1852 Harvard-Yale crew and 1859 Amherst-Williams baseball matches. The Intercollegiate Cricket Association existed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1881–1924), and Haverford won its championship 19 times (1884,[7][8] 1890 (tie),[9][10] 1892 (tie),[11] 1893,[12][13] 1895,[14] 1896,[12][15] 1898,[16] 1902,[17] 1903 (tie),[18] 1904,[12][19][20][21][22] 1905,[12][23][24][25] 1906 (tie),[12][25] 1910,[26] 1915,[27][28] 1916,[27] 1919,[29] 1922 (tie),[30] 1923,[31][32] 1924[33][34]). Haverford's current team has a heavy contingent of students of South Asian heritage, and the XI team regularly travels to Oxbridge for games. The current coach is Kamran Khan, former player for the United States national cricket team from 1979 to 1990 and President of the United States of America Cricket Association from 1999 to 2000. He has coached Haverford's cricket team since 1974.[35]

Track and cross country

The men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division. The men's outdoor track and field team won the first 16 Centennial Conference championships, while the men's cross country team has won all but two Centennial Conference championships, reclaiming the title from Dickinson in the 2010 fall season. In the 2010 NCAA National Cross Country Championship, the men's team finished first, its highest finish ever and the only NCAA championship ever won by any Haverford team. The women's team recently captured at least four consecutive conference titles. In 1997, Karl Paranya '97 became the first (and only) Division III athlete to run a four-minute mile, clocking 3:57.6. The history of Haverford track also includes former team captain Philip Noel-Baker 1908, who later captained Great Britain's 1924 Olympic team, upon which the movie Chariots of Fire is based, and became a Nobel peace prize winner years later in 1959. Also of note is former captain Andrew Lanham, a winner of the 2010 Rhodes Scholarship. Three Haverford runners have won individual Division III men's cross country national championships: Seamus McElligott in 1990, JB Haglund in 2001, and Anders Hulleberg in 2010.

Soccer

Main article: Haverford Fords men's soccer

Haverford's soccer team, the nation's oldest, won the first match of the newly-formed Intercollegiate Soccer Football League in 1905, beating Harvard College. It is of interest that Harvard's team was founded by a Haverford alumnus during his graduate education there. Haverford soccer squads were named national intercollegiate champions three times by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association in 1911, 1915 and 1917. This was well prior to the NCAA's inaugural post-season national championship tournament, which began in 1959. The men's soccer team won its first NCAA playoff game in 1980, defeating Elizabethtown College 4-3. In 2013, both the men's and women's soccer teams were crowned Centennial Conference Champions. While the men's team defeated Wesleyan College in the first round of the 2013 NCAA tournament, the women's team lost to MIT in the first round. The 2015 season was the most successful in the history of Haverford men's soccer, as the team won the Centennial Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA playoff's Elite Eight.

Lacrosse

The Haverford men's lacrosse team has fallen from its national power status. After defeating Gettysburg College in 2009 and 2010, qualifying for the 2008, 2009 and 2010 NCAA tournaments, advancing to the 2010 NCAA tournament quarterfinals (where it took Salisbury University into overtime) and registering other high profile wins, the team has in recent years struggled. The current head coach is Nick Taylor who has been at the helm for three seasons. Former head coach Brendan Dawson is now the head coach of the Haverford School. Former head coach Colin Bathory is an alumnus of the College. Former head coach Mike Murphy is now the head coach of the Penn Quakers men's lacrosse.

Fencing

The fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association (MACFA) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA). Recently retired coach, David Littell, fenced in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. In 2007, the Haverford fencing team fenced an undefeated MACFA season (a school record, since repeated in 2010) and won its third championship. Other championships were won in 1983 and 2004. The current Haverford coach is Chris Spencer, formerly head coach of Mount Holyoke College. Under Spencer the Haverford team has become a top Division III program, defeating Division I teams such as New York University and UNC. Haverford won three consecutive MACFA championships in 2010-2012.

Volleyball

The women's volleyball team competed in the NCAA tournament in 2006 and 2007 after winning its first Centennial Conference titles. In 2007, the team hosted the regional NCAA tournament, where it advanced to the regional championship, ultimately losing to the defending national champion, Juniata.

Basketball

The first intercollegiate basketball game played east of the Mississippi River occurred in Ryan Gym (now a lounging area for students) in 1895 between Haverford and Temple University. A former varsity star is Hunter R. Rawlings III, the former president of Cornell University.

Baseball

The New York Times called Haverford a pipeline to a front-office career in professional baseball, with a focus on sabermetrics (advanced statistics). As of summer 2015, it notes, "there are about 15 to 20 Haverford graduates working in prominent baseball-related jobs, as front-office executives, agents and talent evaluators."[36] The current head coach is Dave Beccaria, an alumnus of and former junior varsity head coach at Johns Hopkins.

Football

Main article: Haverford Fords football

Haverford used to have a football team, starting in 1879.[37][38] The team was rivals with Swarthmore.

National championships

Team

Sport Association Division Year Opponent/Runner-up Score
Men's cross country (1) NCAA Division III 2010 North Central (IL) 87–104

References

  1. ^ "Inside Athletics: Quick Facts". Haverford College Athletic Department.
  2. ^ "About Haverford: The Campus". haverford.edu.
  3. ^ "Centennial Conference (1981-1982 through present)". Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  4. ^ "Ann Koger Announces Retirement at Haverford". Haverford College. August 4, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  5. ^ The Capital of Cricket sports.espn.go.com. URL accessed February 9, 2007.
  6. ^ Murdoch, Joseph (n.d.). . Philadelphia Cricket Club. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-03-30.
  7. ^ "Cricket Cup". The Crimson. 28 April 1900. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  8. ^ "Intercollegiate Cricket". New York Times. New York, NY. 12 April 1885.
  9. ^ "Harvard Beaten at Cricket". New York Times. New York, NY. 12 June 1890.
  10. ^ "Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction". 16. W. B. Holland. August 1890: 416. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ "Intercollegiate Cricketers". New York Times. New York, NY. 11 March 1893.
  12. ^ a b c d e Bushnell, Edward R., ed. (1909). The History of Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania Volume II, 1896–97—1907–08. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania. pp. 123–136.
  13. ^ "Harvard College v Haverford College (26th May 1893)". Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  14. ^ "News of the Cricketers". New York Times. New York, NY. 7 June 1895.
  15. ^ "Haverford College v Harvard College (23rd May 1896)". Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  16. ^ "Harvard-Haverford Cricket Game". New York Times. New York, NY. 24 May 1898.
  17. ^ "Cricket With Mohair C. C. Today". The Crimson. May 1904. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  18. ^ The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopedia and Atlas. New York, NY: New York American and Journal. 1904. p. 700.
  19. ^ "CRICKET TEAM LOST TWICE Haverford Won Friday, 306 to 59; U. of P. Won Saturday, 187 to 78". The Crimson. 23 May 1904. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  20. ^ Harvard College Class of 1904 (1905). Secretary's First Report. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press. pp. 89–90.
  21. ^ "Pennsylvania Defeats Cornell". The Cornell Daily Sun. Vol. XXIV, no. 174. 27 May 1904. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  22. ^ "Intercollegiate Championship 1904". Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  23. ^ "Penn Cricketers Won". New York Times. New York, NY. 21 May 1905.
  24. ^ "Intercollegiate Championship 1905". Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  25. ^ a b Harvard College Class of 1907 (1907). Secretary's First Report. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press. pp. 87–88.
  26. ^ Haverford College Record Yearbook - Class of 1911. Haverford, PA: Haverford College. pp. 121–122. Last year ... [t]he biggest feat of the year was the victory over Penn and the placing of the Intercollegiate cup once more in its proper cabinet in the trophy room.
  27. ^ a b "Haverford Cricket Dates". New York Times. New York, NY. 1 April 1917.
  28. ^ University of Pennsylvania Record Yearbook - Class of 1916. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania. p. 291. Haverford defeated Penn, 241-58.
  29. ^ Haverford College Record Yearbook - Class of 1919. Haverford, PA. p. 91. Haverford defeated Penn, 196-54
  30. ^ Haverford College Athletics 1921-1922. Haverford, PA: Haverford College. 1922. pp. 75–82. Penn defeated Haverford, 209-109, on May 10, 1922; Haverford defeated Penn, 190-63, on May 24, 1922.
  31. ^ Haverford College Record Yearbook - Class of 1923. Haverford, PA. p. 89. So far the team has not lost a single match, having beaten Penn for the Intercollegiate Cup.
  32. ^ "Haverford College Bulletin". XXI (4). Haverford, PA: Haverford College. June 1923: 75–80. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Two Haverford-Penn matches were scheduled. On May 11, Haverford defeated Penn, 85-77. On May 18, Haverford defeated Penn, 161-44.
  33. ^ Haverford College Record Yearbook - Class of 1925. Haverford, PA. p. 122. In 1924 "the team ... was undefeated."
  34. ^ "Haverford College Bulletin". XXII (4). Haverford, PA: Haverford College. June 1923: 62, 65. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Two Haverford-Penn matches were scheduled. The May 7, 1924, match was cancelled. On May 14, 1924, Haverford defeated Penn, 94-34.
  35. ^ "Kamran Khan Bio". Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  36. ^ Pennington, Bill (July 28, 2015). "A Thesis Could Be Written on Haverford College's Influence in Baseball". New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  37. ^ "Lack of Players Cancels Football at Haverford". The New York Times. September 15, 1972.
  38. ^ https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01TRI_INST:SC&search_scope=SC_All&tab=Everything&docid=alma991012377669704921

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among the nation s oldest having won its first intercollegiate match in 1905 against Harvard College The lacrosse team has placed well nationally in the NCAA championships while Haverford s fencing team has competed since the early 1930s Haverford FordsUniversityHaverford CollegeConferenceCentennial ConferenceNCAADivision IIIAthletic directorDanielle LynchLocationHaverford PennsylvaniaVarsity teams23 10 male 12 female 1 co ed 1 MascotBlack squirrel official 2 ColorsRed and black 3 Websitewww wbr haverfordathletics wbr com Contents 1 Athletic teams 1 1 Tennis 1 2 Cricket 1 3 Track and cross country 1 4 Soccer 1 5 Lacrosse 1 6 Fencing 1 7 Volleyball 1 8 Basketball 1 9 Baseball 1 10 Football 2 National championships 2 1 Team 3 ReferencesAthletic teams EditTennis Edit Haverford has a long tradition of producing great tennis players Recently the team has been known for recruiting the most athletes from the state of Hawaii out of all NCAA varsity athletic teams citation needed Ann Koger was the longtime coach of the women s team from 1981 to 2016 4 Cricket Edit Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States and ESPN Magazine has called Haverford the epicenter of Philadelphia s cricket craze 5 The team which was started in 1833 is generally accepted as the first cricket club exclusively for Americans 6 Haverford has a strong rivalry with the University of Pennsylvania s club team The first match in this series was played in 1864 and has been believed to be the third oldest intercollegiate contest in America after the 1852 Harvard Yale crew and 1859 Amherst Williams baseball matches The Intercollegiate Cricket Association existed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 1881 1924 and Haverford won its championship 19 times 1884 7 8 1890 tie 9 10 1892 tie 11 1893 12 13 1895 14 1896 12 15 1898 16 1902 17 1903 tie 18 1904 12 19 20 21 22 1905 12 23 24 25 1906 tie 12 25 1910 26 1915 27 28 1916 27 1919 29 1922 tie 30 1923 31 32 1924 33 34 Haverford s current team has a heavy contingent of students of South Asian heritage and the XI team regularly travels to Oxbridge for games The current coach is Kamran Khan former player for the United States national cricket team from 1979 to 1990 and President of the United States of America Cricket Association from 1999 to 2000 He has coached Haverford s cricket team since 1974 35 Track and cross country Edit The men s and women s track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division The men s outdoor track and field team won the first 16 Centennial Conference championships while the men s cross country team has won all but two Centennial Conference championships reclaiming the title from Dickinson in the 2010 fall season In the 2010 NCAA National Cross Country Championship the men s team finished first its highest finish ever and the only NCAA championship ever won by any Haverford team The women s team recently captured at least four consecutive conference titles In 1997 Karl Paranya 97 became the first and only Division III athlete to run a four minute mile clocking 3 57 6 The history of Haverford track also includes former team captain Philip Noel Baker 1908 who later captained Great Britain s 1924 Olympic team upon which the movie Chariots of Fire is based and became a Nobel peace prize winner years later in 1959 Also of note is former captain Andrew Lanham a winner of the 2010 Rhodes Scholarship Three Haverford runners have won individual Division III men s cross country national championships Seamus McElligott in 1990 JB Haglund in 2001 and Anders Hulleberg in 2010 Soccer Edit Main article Haverford Fords men s soccer Haverford s soccer team the nation s oldest won the first match of the newly formed Intercollegiate Soccer Football League in 1905 beating Harvard College It is of interest that Harvard s team was founded by a Haverford alumnus during his graduate education there Haverford soccer squads were named national intercollegiate champions three times by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association in 1911 1915 and 1917 This was well prior to the NCAA s inaugural post season national championship tournament which began in 1959 The men s soccer team won its first NCAA playoff game in 1980 defeating Elizabethtown College 4 3 In 2013 both the men s and women s soccer teams were crowned Centennial Conference Champions While the men s team defeated Wesleyan College in the first round of the 2013 NCAA tournament the women s team lost to MIT in the first round The 2015 season was the most successful in the history of Haverford men s soccer as the team won the Centennial Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA playoff s Elite Eight Lacrosse Edit The Haverford men s lacrosse team has fallen from its national power status After defeating Gettysburg College in 2009 and 2010 qualifying for the 2008 2009 and 2010 NCAA tournaments advancing to the 2010 NCAA tournament quarterfinals where it took Salisbury University into overtime and registering other high profile wins the team has in recent years struggled The current head coach is Nick Taylor who has been at the helm for three seasons Former head coach Brendan Dawson is now the head coach of the Haverford School Former head coach Colin Bathory is an alumnus of the College Former head coach Mike Murphy is now the head coach of the Penn Quakers men s lacrosse Fencing Edit The fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association MACFA and the National Intercollegiate Women s Fencing Association NIWFA Recently retired coach David Littell fenced in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul South Korea In 2007 the Haverford fencing team fenced an undefeated MACFA season a school record since repeated in 2010 and won its third championship Other championships were won in 1983 and 2004 The current Haverford coach is Chris Spencer formerly head coach of Mount Holyoke College Under Spencer the Haverford team has become a top Division III program defeating Division I teams such as New York University and UNC Haverford won three consecutive MACFA championships in 2010 2012 Volleyball Edit The women s volleyball team competed in the NCAA tournament in 2006 and 2007 after winning its first Centennial Conference titles In 2007 the team hosted the regional NCAA tournament where it advanced to the regional championship ultimately losing to the defending national champion Juniata Basketball Edit The first intercollegiate basketball game played east of the Mississippi River occurred in Ryan Gym now a lounging area for students in 1895 between Haverford and Temple University A former varsity star is Hunter R Rawlings III the former president of Cornell University Baseball Edit The New York Times called Haverford a pipeline to a front office career in professional baseball with a focus on sabermetrics advanced statistics As of summer 2015 it notes there are about 15 to 20 Haverford graduates working in prominent baseball related jobs as front office executives agents and talent evaluators 36 The current head coach is Dave Beccaria an alumnus of and former junior varsity head coach at Johns Hopkins Football Edit Main article Haverford Fords football Haverford used to have a football team starting in 1879 37 38 The team was rivals with Swarthmore National championships EditTeam Edit Sport Association Division Year Opponent Runner up ScoreMen s cross country 1 NCAA Division III 2010 North Central IL 87 104References Edit Inside Athletics Quick Facts Haverford College Athletic Department About Haverford The Campus haverford edu Centennial Conference 1981 1982 through present Retrieved October 24 2020 Ann Koger Announces Retirement at Haverford Haverford College August 4 2016 Retrieved February 26 2023 The Capital of Cricket sports espn go com URL accessed February 9 2007 Murdoch Joseph n d Philadelphia Cricket Club View Library Document History Philadelphia Cricket Club Archived from the original on 2007 09 28 Retrieved 2007 03 30 Cricket Cup The Crimson 28 April 1900 Retrieved 2016 05 20 Intercollegiate Cricket New York Times New York NY 12 April 1885 Harvard Beaten at Cricket New York Times New York NY 12 June 1890 Outing Sport Adventure Travel Fiction 16 W B Holland August 1890 416 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Intercollegiate Cricketers New York Times New York NY 11 March 1893 a b c d e Bushnell Edward R ed 1909 The History of Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania Volume II 1896 97 1907 08 Philadelphia Pennsylvania The Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania pp 123 136 Harvard College v Haverford College 26th May 1893 Retrieved 2016 05 21 News of the Cricketers New York Times New York NY 7 June 1895 Haverford College v Harvard College 23rd May 1896 Retrieved 2016 05 21 Harvard Haverford Cricket Game New York Times New York NY 24 May 1898 Cricket With Mohair C C Today The Crimson May 1904 Retrieved 2016 05 20 The American Almanac Year book Cyclopedia and Atlas New York NY New York American and Journal 1904 p 700 CRICKET TEAM LOST TWICE Haverford Won Friday 306 to 59 U of P Won Saturday 187 to 78 The Crimson 23 May 1904 Retrieved 2016 05 20 Harvard College Class of 1904 1905 Secretary s First Report Cambridge Massachusetts The University Press pp 89 90 Pennsylvania Defeats Cornell The Cornell Daily Sun Vol XXIV no 174 27 May 1904 Retrieved 2016 05 20 Intercollegiate Championship 1904 Retrieved 2016 05 20 Penn Cricketers Won New York Times New York NY 21 May 1905 Intercollegiate Championship 1905 Retrieved 2016 05 20 a b Harvard College Class of 1907 1907 Secretary s First Report Cambridge Massachusetts The University Press pp 87 88 Haverford College Record Yearbook Class of 1911 Haverford PA Haverford College pp 121 122 Last year t he biggest feat of the year was the victory over Penn and the placing of the Intercollegiate cup once more in its proper cabinet in the trophy room a b Haverford Cricket Dates New York Times New York NY 1 April 1917 University of Pennsylvania Record Yearbook Class of 1916 Philadelphia PA University of Pennsylvania p 291 Haverford defeated Penn 241 58 Haverford College Record Yearbook Class of 1919 Haverford PA p 91 Haverford defeated Penn 196 54 Haverford College Athletics 1921 1922 Haverford PA Haverford College 1922 pp 75 82 Penn defeated Haverford 209 109 on May 10 1922 Haverford defeated Penn 190 63 on May 24 1922 Haverford College Record Yearbook Class of 1923 Haverford PA p 89 So far the team has not lost a single match having beaten Penn for the Intercollegiate Cup Haverford College Bulletin XXI 4 Haverford PA Haverford College June 1923 75 80 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Two Haverford Penn matches were scheduled On May 11 Haverford defeated Penn 85 77 On May 18 Haverford defeated Penn 161 44 Haverford College Record Yearbook Class of 1925 Haverford PA p 122 In 1924 the team was undefeated Haverford College Bulletin XXII 4 Haverford PA Haverford College June 1923 62 65 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Two Haverford Penn matches were scheduled The May 7 1924 match was cancelled On May 14 1924 Haverford defeated Penn 94 34 Kamran Khan Bio Retrieved 2018 09 30 Pennington Bill July 28 2015 A Thesis Could Be Written on Haverford College s Influence in Baseball New York Times Retrieved July 28 2015 Lack of Players Cancels Football at Haverford The New York Times September 15 1972 https tripod swarthmore edu discovery fulldisplay vid 01TRI INST SC amp search scope SC All amp tab Everything amp docid alma991012377669704921 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Haverford Fords amp oldid 1141747240, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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