18 Facts About Laurie Cox

Laurie Davidson Cox was a leading American landscape architect and Hall of Fame coach and contributor to the sport of lacrosse.

Laurie Cox was professor of Landscape Engineering at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, where he was responsible for establishing Syracuse University's lacrosse program.

Laurie Cox was one of the leading landscape architects in the United States.

Laurie Cox advocated for a new kind of park in the US National Park system that balanced the desire for recreation and preservation.

In 1934, Laurie Cox surveyed Vermont's Green Mountains with the intent of creating a national park in the state.

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Revolutionary at the time, Laurie Cox recognized the changing American culture and the automobile and included many "windshield" views throughout the 240 miles park length.

In 1929, the Administration Building at Green Lakes State Park, near Fayetteville, New York, was built according to plans by Laurie Cox, who was active in the design of several New York state parks.

In 1915, Laurie Cox was appointed an associate professor of Landscape Engineering at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University.

Laurie Cox served a Head of the Department from 1915 to 1947, during his entire tenure at Syracuse.

Laurie Cox was a Fellow of the American Institute of Parks and an executive and a life member of the Board of Directors of the National Conference on State Parks.

Outside of academics and landscape architecture, Laurie Cox is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the game of lacrosse in the United States.

Once Laurie Cox was established as a professor at Syracuse University, he recruited forestry students to start a lacrosse team at the school in the spring of 1916.

Laurie Cox thought of field lacrosse as a gentleman's game that could rise to prominence among collegiate sports.

Laurie Cox viewed the introduction and spread of box lacrosse with negativity.

Laurie Cox abhorred the commercialism of the new version, and thought it was a "peculiar" hybrid sport.

In 1922, Laurie Cox organized an "All-American" team to travel to Europe to play against British teams.

Laurie Cox would go on to coach the American teams in International competitions in 1930,1935, and 1937.

Laurie Cox was elected to the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in its inaugural class in 1957.