 Jeffrey Field was honored in 2006 as the "Collegiate Soccer Field of the Year" by the SportsTurf Managers Association.The Nittany Lions men's soccer team has a rich soccer history beginning in the 1910s with interclass play that helped form the school's first official team in 1911.From the late 1920s into the late 1940s Penn State was noted as one of the top college soccer programs in the United States lead by head coach Bill Jeffrey.