Charles Daniel Murphy ’34

Charlie "Clancy" Murphy, a star lacrosse player as an undergraduate who in 1956 became the founder of lacrosse at Yorktown (N.Y.) High School, the first public school lacrosse program in the Hudson River Valley, and continued for years as its consultant, unofficial coach, and father figure, died of pneumonia Aug. 19, 2005.

In 1994 he was inducted as a charter member in the Hudson Valley Chapter Lacrosse Hall of Fame and, in 1998, in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in Baltimore. Back at Yorktown High, the athletic field was named Charlie Murphy Field.

Clancy worked for 30 years as a manager at J.L. Murphy Inc., in New York City, retiring in 1977. During World War II he served three years in the Army. Unmarried, he was predeceased by three brothers, and is survived by several nieces and nephews.

At his induction in the Hall of Fame Clancy said, "If I have contributed to lacrosse and the lives of young people, then my life has been worthwhile. I can only be thankful for what lacrosse has done for me, for being at the right place at the right time, and for being able to do something about it."

The Class of 1934