1971 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship

1971 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship
Country USA
Teams 24
Champions Howard (title vacated)
Runners-up Saint Louis (10th title game)
Matches played 23
Goals scored 98 (4.26 per match)
← 1970 1972 →

The 1971 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship was the thirteenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The Howard Bison won their first national title by defeating the two-time defending champion Saint Louis Billikens in the championship game, 3-2. Howard's performance would later be vacated by the NCAA. The final match was played on December 30, 1971 in Miami, Florida at the Miami Orange Bowl.[1][2]

This was the final championship before the establishment of separate championships for the NCAA's University Division (now Division I) and College Division (now Divisions II and III) in 1973.

Early rounds

  First round Second round Third round Semifinals
                                     
   Harvard 6  
   S. Connecticut State 0  
     Harvard 3  
       Brown 1  
   Brown 4
   Bridgeport 1  
     Harvard 4  
     Hartwick College 1  
   Hartwick College 3  
   Army 0  
     Hartwick College 4
       Cornell 1  
   Cornell 2
   Long Island-Brooklyn 1  
     Harvard 0
     Howard 1
   Howard 1  
   West Virginia 0  
     Howard 3
       Navy 0  
   Navy 3
   South Florida 1  
     Howard 8
     Penn State 0  
   Pennsylvania 2  
   East Stroudsburg 0  
     Pennsylvania 1
       Penn State 2  
   Penn State 4
   St. Joseph's 1  
  First round Second round Third round Semifinals
                                     
        
     Saint Louis 4  
       Ohio 0  
      
        
     Saint Louis 3  
     SIU Edwardsville 1  
        
        
     SIU Edwardsville 2
       Akron 0  
      
        
     Saint Louis 3
     San Francisco 2
        
        
     San Francisco 3
       San Jose State 2  
      
        
     San Francisco 6
     UCLA 2  
        
        
     UCLA 5
       Cal State-Chico 2  
      

Final – Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida

5 December 1970
Howard* 3–2 Saint Louis

The Championship was later vacated by the NCAA.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "1971 Division I Men's Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. p. 11. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Men's Soccer Division I History" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. ↑ "Division I Men's Soccer Championship History". NCAA.com. 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
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