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By any measure, Tim Murphy has led Harvard's storied football program to its most prosperous era since the early 20th century. He looks to continue that trend in 2018, as he enters his 25th season as the Thomas Stephenson Family Head Coach for Harvard Football.

One of the game's finest teachers and motivators over the last quarter-century, Murphy is Harvard’s all-time winningest coach, and since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, only one Ivy coach, Carmen Cozza (179), has more wins than his 168. His Harvard teams have captured nine Ivy League championships (1997, 2001, ’04, ’07, ’08, ’11, '13, '14, '15) and have combined to own the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision’s second-best record over the last 17 seasons (135-34, .799).

Murphy is the first Harvard coach since the iconic Percy Haughton to lead the Crimson to three unbeaten, untied seasons in his tenure (2001, '04, '14). Having previously coached five seasons at Cincinnati and two at Maine, Murphy owns career records of 200-116-1 overall, 168-71 with the Crimson and 17-7 in The Game, the annual rivalry tilt between Harvard and Yale.

A seven-time selection as New England Coach of the Year (1988, ’97, 2001, ’04, ’11, '14, '16), Murphy was the American Football Monthly Division I-AA National Coach of the Year in 2004 and was also honored as a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award for the top FCS coach nationally in 2001, ’04 and ’11. He was the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston Head Coach of the Year in 2001 and ’11 and has also been recognized as the American Football Coaches Association District I Coach of the Year (2001) and the Scotty Whitelaw ECAC Division I-AA Coach of the Year (1997). Murphy was also named the inaugural recipient of the Ivy League Coach of the Year Award in 2014.

Under Murphy, Harvard has claimed Ivy titles in six of the last 11 and eight of the last 17 seasons. In those 17 seasons, starting with 2001, the Crimson has posted the fifth-highest winning percentage in all of NCAA Division I, trailing only Boise State, Ohio State, North Dakota State and Oklahoma State. During the 16-year stretch from 2001-2016, Harvard earned at least seven wins each season, an Ivy League record. No other Ivy team has strung together seven such seasons in a row.

Every four-year player Murphy has recruited to Harvard has been a part of at least one Ivy League championship team. Murphy is just the fourth head coach to man the Harvard sideline since 1950.