Herb Schmidt

Herbert Schmidt is an American retired soccer and lacrosse player and coach who holds the second most career men's NCAA goals and the most by an American player. He grew up in Summit, New Jersey, and graduated from Summit High School, where he played basketball and captained the 1957 boys' soccer team. At Rutgers University he was a 1960 First Team and 1961 Honorable Mention All American soccer player and also a two-time lacrosse All-American. He is listed under several categories in the NCAA soccer record book and is a member of the Rutgers Athletic Hall of Fame. In 1960 he played for New York Hota of the German American Soccer League. As a coach he became Penn State's head lacrosse coach in 1964 and its head men's soccer coach in 1968, compiling a record of 38 wins, 21 losses and 8 draws before Walter Bahr replaced him in 1974.