Longtime Harvard head coach Tim Murphy is expected to retire today, sources told FootballScoop on Wednesday.
Murphy has run the Crimson football program since 1994, a 30-season run that produced precisely 200 victories and 10 Ivy League championships.
He exits coaching as the Ivy League's all-time wins leader.
Prior to Harvard, Murphy spent two seasons as the head coach at Maine and five at Cincinnati.
Murphy inherited the Harvard football program from Joe Restic, who led the program from 1971-93. The Crimson did not generate a winning record for Restic's final six seasons, and needed three seasons to build to a winning record under Murphy before rising up to go 9-1 with an undefeated Ivy League record in 1997.
The Crimson football program really got rolling in 2001, going a perfect 9-0 with a No. 19 final ranking. From that point forward, Harvard suffered only one losing season, going 10-0 in 2004, 17-3 from 2008-09, 28-2 from 2013-15, and 8-2 with a share of the Ivy League crown this past fall.
Murphy went 19-10 against rival Yale, including a 14-1 run from 2001-15.
A Massachusetts native, Murphy played at Springfield College and began coaching in 1979 as a part-time assistant at Brown. He coached the offensive line at Brown, Lafayette and Boston University before taking the offensive coordinator job at Maine in 1985. He was promoted to head coach in 1987 and remained in the head coach's chair ever since.
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Update: Murphy has announced his retirement.
"Harvard University has been a very special place for my family and me," Murphy said. "I am graduating from a profession that has not only been my job, but other than my family and close friends, it has been my passion and my life for the past 45 years.
"It has been an incredible honor to be the football coach at Harvard, and I am forever grateful to have been blessed to work with so many amazing people starting with the 1,000 student-athletes and 80-plus assistant coaches during our tenure here," Murphy added. "Sometimes, at the end of your career someone will ask, 'Do you have any regrets?' And my simple answer is no, because in any endeavor, any relationship, if you give it absolutely everything you have, there can be no regrets."
"Harvard has 150 years of football history and Tim Murphy led the most successful era of its entirety in his 30 seasons," said AD Erin McDermott. "His name will forever be linked with Harvard Football in an exalted manner because of the sustained team success, coaching milestones achieved and the measure of his character and work ethic. Coach Murphy changed Ivy League football upon his entry, and we are all better for it. Harvard is grateful for his service and leadership, and I am grateful to have experienced these last few seasons with him."