Joe Corcoran began his lacrosse career at Geneva High as a four-year varsity midfielder from 1937-1941. As team captain in 1941, he led Geneva to the Central New York League Championship. While serving in WWII from 1942-45, Corcoran won the light heavyweight boxing championship. From 1946-50 at Ithaca College, he initiated the lacrosse program, was the head coach as well as a four-year varsity player. During that time, he also played box lacrosse for the North American League, was the football team captain and achieved Little All-American and All-Upstate NY football honors.

At the University of Maryland, Radebaugh earned first team All-American honors in 1975 and second team All-American honors in 1973 and 1974. As a midfielder for the Terrapins, he played on Maryland's national championship teams of 1973 and 1975. In 1975, Radebaugh received the Lt. Donald C. McLaughlin Jr. Memorial Award as the nation's outstanding midfielder.

McEneaney earned first team All-America honors at Cornell University in 1975, 1976 and 1977. He was an attackman for Cornell's national championship teams of 1976 and 1977, and Ivy League Championship teams of 1975, 1976 and 1977. McEneaney earned first team All-Ivy honors in 1975, 1976 and 1977, and was selected Ivy League Player of the Year in 1975 and 1977. As the Big Red's MVP in 1975 and 1977, McEneaney ranks second on Cornell's all-time scoring list for career points with 256.

Chief Oren Lyons Jr. grew up on the Onondaga Reservation. Lyons learned his goalkeeping skills by watching his father, Oren Lyons Sr., knock down shots with some of the quickest hands in the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. At 17, stories placed Lyons was in the nets against the awesome Angus Thomas, who had been banished for accidentally killing a player with his heavy shot. Thomas, trying to prove he was as good as ever, wound up and fired an underhand shot that slammed into Lyons chest and knocked him back into the net.

As a student at Cornell, Van Orman was one of the nation's leading football ends from 1904-07, playing for Coach Glenn "Pop" Warner. From 1911-19, he was an assistant football coach at Cornell. In 1920, he became the head football coach and director of athletics at Johns Hopkins University.

Although he never had seen lacrosse, he also became the lacrosse coach at Hopkins in 1926. Van Orman built nationally prominent teams from 1926-34, coaching victorious Olympic teams in 1928 and 1932, and winning the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Championships in 1926, 1927 and 1928.

Kaestner was selected as a first team All-American in 1966 and 1967. In those seasons, Kaestner became the first player to win the Schmeisser Award as the nation's top defenseman two consecutive years. He was a member of the Senior All-Star Team in 1967 when Hopkins tied for the top spot in the country. Kaestner received the Sports Illustrated Award of Merit for accomplishments in his senior year and was selected to the Hopkins' All-Time team. 

Cuozzo was introduced to lacrosse at Cortland State, where he played two years as a midfielder, graduating in 1959. Upon graduation, Cuozzo played for the Suffolk Lacrosse Club from 1956-64, and officiated high school lacrosse from 1960-66 in Suffolk County.

Sinclair was the first female inductee into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. She taught at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore from 1925-51. Shortly before her death in 1978, she had the pleasure of knowing that an athletic field at the school had been named in her honor.

Howard "Cookie" Krongard played on Princeton's undefeated Ivy League championship teams from 1959-1961 and earned first team All-American honors in 1961. Krongard also was a first team All-Ivy selection his last two years at Princeton. His extensive club lacrosse career began with the Boston Club in 1962 and continued with four other teams, including seven years with the New York Club. 

"Skeet" Chadwick earned first team All-America honors as a goalie at Washington & Lee in 1973 and 1974. In 1974, he received the Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Memorial Award as the nation's top goalie. A team co-captain of the third ranked Generals in 1974, Chadwick also earned Washington & Lee's most valuable player award that same year. He represented the Generals in the 1974 North-South Collegiate All-Star game, and was chosen as co-captain of the South squad.