Veteran college football coach retires after 30 years

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The college football coaching community is about to lose one of its longest-tenured members as head coach Tim Murphy announced his retirement after leaving the Harvard Crimson program for the last 30 seasons.

Murphy retires as the winningest football coach in Ivy League history after posting a 200-89 overall record and bringing the Crimson 10 conference championships.

In his career, including stops at Maine and Cincinnati, the Kingston, Mass., native completed a 232-134-1 record. Picked to finish 4th in the Ivy during the preseason, his 2023 Crimson team won the conference behind an 8-2 record.

"Harvard University has been a very special place for my family and me," Murphy said in a statement after announcing his retirement. 

"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."

Murphy added: "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.

"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."

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