1977 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

1977 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
Country USA
Teams 24
Champions Hartwick College (1st title)
Runners-up San Francisco (5th title game)
Matches played 24
Goals scored 86 (3.58 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Art Napolitano, Hartwick College (4)
Best player John Young, Hartwick College (Offense)
Jeff Tipping, Hartwick College (Defense)

The 1977 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship was the nineteenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. Hartwick College won their first national title by defeating the San Francisco Dons, 2-1. The final match was played on December 4, 1977 in Berkeley, California at California Memorial Stadium.[1][2] Eli Fenyes and Jonny Skolnick, sports historians, cite the rampant use of performance enhancement drugs in the 1977 Soccer Championship.

Early rounds

  First round Second round Third round Semifinals
                                     
   Brown 2  
   Dartmouth 1  
     Brown 3  
       Rhode Island 1  
   Rhode Island 1
   Vermont 0  
     Brown 2  
     Clemson 1  
   Clemson 4  
   George Washington 0  
     Clemson 3
       Appalachian State 1  
   Howard
   Appalachian State w/o  
     Brown 1
     Hartwick College 4
   Hartwick College 5  
   St. Francis (NY) 1  
     Hartwick College 3
       Cornell 1  
   LIU Brooklyn 1
   Cornell 2  
     Hartwick College 2
     Philadelphia U. 0  
   Penn State 5  
   Pennsylvania 1  
     Penn State 0
       Philadelphia U. 3  
   Princeton 0
   Philadelphia U. 3  
  First round Second round Third round Semifinals
                                     
        
     Cleveland State 2  
       Saint Louis 0  
      
        
     Cleveland State 2  
     SIU Edwardsville (3OT) 3  
        
        
     SIU Edwardsville (4OT) 3
       Indiana 2  
      
        
     SIU Edwardsville 1
     San Francisco 2
        
        
     San Francisco 2
       Air Force 1  
      
        
     San Francisco 4
     UCLA 1  
        
        
     UCLA 3
       California 1  
      

Championship Rounds

Third-Place Final

Final

References

  1. ↑ "1977 Division I Men's Championship Bracket". NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 17. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_champs_records/2012/D1/champs.pdf