Harvard's Murphy Retires

[Go Green]

Going out on a (tri-) championship year.

Football’s Murphy Announces Retirement After 30 Seasons at Helm - Harvard University (gocrimson.com)

[Wolffan]

Long and successful tenure within the Ivy league and occasionally his Harvard teams were in the FCS Top 25 nationally. That 13th-ranked 2004 team may have been his best. According to the Boston Globe his career head coach record (across all stops) was a very good 224-132-1.

[bulldog10jw]

Great coach, great person. All the best to him.

[caribbeanhen]

Great coach, great person. All the best to him.

rumor was he was lined up to take Delaware job in 2002 after Tubby Raymond retired but they went with KC Keeler at the last minute.

[Go Green]

rumor was he was lined up to take Delaware job in 2002 after Tubby Raymond retired but they went with KC Keeler at the last minute.

Those were the days when Murphy was constantly rumored to be in the running for such-and-such job. We all wondered whether the whole thing was a big ruse for him to leverage higher salaries from Harvard....

[bulldog10jw]

Just wondering. Tony Reno has bounced from Yale as an assistant, to Harvard as an assistant, to Yale as head coach. He is a Massachusetts guy. Just wondering.

[DFW HOYA]

Bob Surace now becomes the dean of Ivy coaches, with three new head coaches entering 2024 and one in his second season.

[Go Lehigh TU owl]

Those were the days when Murphy was constantly rumored to be in the running for such-and-such job. We all wondered whether the whole thing was a big ruse for him to leverage higher salaries from Harvard....

His name was linked to Notre Dame in the early 2000s!

[NY Crusader 2010]

Long and successful tenure within the Ivy league and occasionally his Harvard teams were in the FCS Top 25 nationally. That 13th-ranked 2004 team may have been his best. According to the Boston Globe his career head coach record (across all stops) was a very good 224-132-1.

The 2004 team was rated #2 that year according to Sagarin, right behind national champ JMU.

[bonarae]

Finally! Hopefully the next Crimson football coach is nationally minded when it comes to BOTH recruiting and scheduling opponents. We poached our current AD from UChicago.

Fingers crossed then.