Football tournament season
| 1965 College Cup | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Country |  United States |
| Venue(s) | Francis Field St. Louis, Missouri |
| Teams | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Saint Louis (5th title) |
| Runner-up | Michigan State |
| Semifinalists | |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 15 |
| Goals scored | 64 (4.27 per match) |
| Best player | Pat McBride, Saint Louis (offensive) Jack Gilsinn, Saint Louis (defensive) Nick Krat, Michigan State (defensive) |
| ← 19641966 → | |
The 1965 NCAA soccer tournament was the seventh annual tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national champion of men's college soccer among its members in the United States. The tournament additionally returned to a field of sixteen teams.
The tournament final was played at Francis Field in St. Louis, Missouri on December 4.
Hosts Saint Louis won their fifth title, defeating Michigan State in the final, 1–0
Qualifying
See also: 1965 NCAA soccer season
| Qualified teams | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | Record | Appearance | Last Bid | |
| Air Force | 6–4 | 2nd | 1964 | |
| Army | 10–0–1 | 3rd | 1964 | |
| Baltimore | 11–1 | 1st | Never | |
| Brown | 11–0–1 | 2nd | 1963 | |
| East Stroudsburg State | 10–1 | 2nd | 1964 | |
| Ithaca | 10–0–1 | 1st | Never | |
| Long Island | 11–1–1 | 2nd | 1963 | |
| Michigan State | 7–1 | 4th | 1964 | |
| Middlebury College | 8–0–1 | 1st | Never | |
| Navy | 10–0–1 | 3rd | 1964 | |
| Ohio | 6–4–1 | 1st | Never | |
| Pittsburgh | 7–1–1 | 2nd | 1962 | |
| Saint Louis | 10–0 | 7th | 1964 | |
| San Francisco | 9–0–1 | 4th | 1963 | |
| Trinity (CT) | 8–1 | 2nd | 1964 | |
| West Chester State | 8–4 | 5th | 1963 | |
Bracket
| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Championship | ||||||||||||
| Middlebury | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Trinity (CT) | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Trinity (CT) | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Army | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Army | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Long Island | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Army | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Baltimore | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| East Stroudsburg State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| East Stroudsburg State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Pittsburgh | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Navy | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| West Chester State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Navy | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Brown | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Brown | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Ithaca | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Navy | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Ohio | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| San Francisco | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| San Francisco | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Air Force | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Final
| Michigan State | 0–1 | St. Louis |
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Gentile  10' |
See also
References
- "1965 Division I Men's Championship Bracket" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 5. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
- http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/msu-m-soccer-ncaa-champ-history.html
- http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_soccer_champs_records/2012/D1/champs.pdf
| NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament | |
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| NCAA Tournaments |
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| NCAA Finals | |
| National tournaments | |
| Records & statistics | |
| 1965–66 NCAA University Division championships | |
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| University Division only | |
| Single championship | |