Born in Baltimore in 1918, Tolson attended Baltimore City College High School and earned three varsity letters in lacrosse. The 1936 City College team completed an undefeated season and won the Maryland Scholastic Championship. Tolson was chosen to the All-Maryland Scholastic first team at point. City College repeated as champion in 1937, and once again Tolson was a first team All-Maryland selection.

William H. Dobbin played at Hobart College where he was close attack, co-captain in 1940 and an All-American. He earned second team All-American honors in 1940 and honorable mention in 1939. He starred in the first North/South College All-Star Game in 1940 and later became the general chairman of the North/South Games in 1956 & 1972. He was the USILA's Man of the Year in 1956 and also helped coach at Hobart that year.

Hewitt, better known as "Rip," attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute where he won letters and was an outstanding athlete in football, ice hockey, and lacrosse. He was All-Maryland in 1934 and invited to go with the state championship team to play the Long Island champions.

Myers, an outstanding football and basketball player at Boys Latin in Baltimore from 1925-28 and the University of Virginia from 1928-32, is revered for his legendary coaching ability. In his coaching career of 46 years (1933-1979), Howdy compiled a lacrosse record of 379-141-6.

When Arthur was sixteen, he represented Laconia, New Hampshire, in the State Oratorical High School Championship and was awarded first prize, which consisted of a gold medal and his choice of an appointment to the Naval Academy or the Military Academy. Having never previously heard of either institution, he selected the Naval Academy based on an encyclopedia's description of its summer cruises to Europe. In preparation for Annapolis, he enrolled at the Severn School in 1926, where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball, but did not play lacrosse.

Born on January 2, 1913 in Baltimore, Church Yearley started his lacrosse career at the age of thirteen. This early interest was generated by the award of a lacrosse stick as a Sunday School prize by his teacher, Douglas C. Turnbull, Jr., a long-time member of the Hall of Fame. Church played two years with the Hopkins Midgets, an organized team of pre-high school boys, before entering City College. At City he earned letters in 1928, 1929 and 1930 and was elected captain of the team in 1930. That same year, he was named to the All-America Scholastic Team.

Carl was an outstanding attackman for Hobart College from 1934 to 1937 and was chosen as Hobart's Most Valuable Player in 1936 and 1937. Carl was first team All-American in 1936 and 1937, and honorable mention in 1935. He played with the American team against Canada in 1936 and England in 1937, as well as North/South games in 1936. He also earned varsity letters in football and basketball, making him a nine-letter man at Hobart.

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1903, Faber graduated from Eastern High School in Washington D.C. in 1921, University of Maryland with BS in 1926, MS in 1927, PhD in 1937. After graduating from Maryland in 1926, Jack remained in the educational field all of his life at the University of Maryland. He was head of the Department of Microbiology, as well as faculty chairman of athletics.

Born in Baltimore in 1907, Thomsen was educated at Baltimore Friends School, graduating in 1926. He then went to Swarthmore College for two years before transferring to St. John's (Md.) College.

While at Friends School, Thomsen played football, basketball and lacrosse, winning varsity letters in all three sports.

At Swarthmore College, he played two years of football and lacrosse, once scoring 14 goals during a lacrosse game versus Lafayette College.