--- title: Harvard Suspends Men’s Soccer Team for Rating Women's Looks description: Harvard University has suspended its men’s soccer team for the rest of the season after an investigation over team members rating women. canonical: https://time.com/4557553/harvard-university-soccer-suspension/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-04T00:31:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:46.175Z og:title: Harvard Suspends Men’s Soccer Team for Rating Women's Appearances og:description: After they were first caught in 2012 og:url: https://time.com/4557553/harvard-university-soccer-suspension/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt793c55c6e4b0f179/6988acfa524fc04b4fdfa1e9/harvard-university.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Harvard banners hang outside Memorial Church on the Harvard og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harvard Suspends Men’s Soccer Team for Rating Women's Appearances twitter:description: After they were first caught in 2012 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt793c55c6e4b0f179/6988acfa524fc04b4fdfa1e9/harvard-university.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Harvard University Suspends Men’s Soccer Team for Rating Women's Appearances > Sponsored content. 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Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Nov 4, 2016 12:31 AM UTC [Harvard University](http://new.time.com/money/best-colleges/profile/harvard-university/) has [suspended its men’s soccer team](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/4/soccer-suspended-scouting-report-harvard/) for the rest of the season after an investigation found that members of the Ivy League’s Division 1 team participated in a “widespread” practice of rating women on their looks. Athletics Director Robert Scalise alerted the school’s student athletes of the decision to cancel the season and forfeit all remaining games in an email, according to the school’s student newspaper, the _Harvard_ _Crimson_. “As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season,” the email said. “The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.” Scalise added that the “practice appears to be more widespread across the team and has continued beyond 2012, including in 2016,” the _Crimson_ reports. The suspension stems from [revelations](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/10/25/harvard-mens-soccer-2012-report/) that the 2012 men’s soccer team rated women soccer recruits and assigned each a hypothetical sexual position. University President Drew Faust said in a statement to the student newspaper that she was “deeply distressed” to learn that the “appalling actions” of the team extended past 2012. \[[_Crimson_](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/4/soccer-suspended-scouting-report-harvard/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4557553/harvard-university-soccer-suspension/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4557553/harvard-university-soccer-suspension/"},"headline":"Harvard University Suspends Men’s Soccer Team for Rating Women's Appearances","datePublished":"2016-11-04T00:31:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:46.175Z","description":"After they were first caught in 2012","url":"https://time.com/4557553/harvard-university-soccer-suspension/","keywords":["motto","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt793c55c6e4b0f179/6988acfa524fc04b4fdfa1e9/harvard-university.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt793c55c6e4b0f179/6988acfa524fc04b4fdfa1e9/harvard-university.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Harvard banners hang outside Memorial Church on the Harvard","caption":"Harvard banners hang outside Memorial Church on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sept. 4, 2009.","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4557553/harvard-university-soccer-suspension/","name":"Harvard University Suspends Men’s Soccer Team for Rating Women's Appearances"}}]}] ```