N-Club Hall of Fame

Murphy Rogers

Murphy "Red" Rogers

  • Class
  • Induction
    1968
  • Sport(s)
    Baseball, Basketball - Men's
Competed 1915-17
 
Played basketball and baseball in his NSU athletics career … a guard on NSU’s two basketball Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship teams in 1915 and 1916 … part of a 14-1 record in 1916 in which they were undefeated against Association teams … outscored opponents 587-286 that season with its only loss coming to Tulane … outfielder for two seasons on the baseball team … inducted into NSU’s Long Purple Line, which recognizes its most accomplished alumni … a pioneer of modern education who was Louisiana’s supervisor of elementary schools and later the director of college curricula for the state department of education … served as NSU’s dean and assisted generations of NSU students by donating more than $120,000 for scholarships.
 
Murphy Rogers 1917
 
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