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HARRY ROYLE<br />
Harry Royle served the Hofstra University Athletic<br />
Department for nearly 40 years, including seven<br />
years as director of athletics. After serving as interim<br />
director from June 1997 through February 1998,<br />
Harry, a longtime Hofstra University athletic<br />
administrator, was selected as the University’s sixth<br />
director of athletics. During his tenure, Hofstra<br />
upgraded nearly all of its athletic facilities, moved<br />
into the Colonial Athletic Association for all sports<br />
but football and joined the highly competitive<br />
Atlantic 10 Football Conference after years of playing<br />
as a I-AA Independent.<br />
In October 2004 he stepped down from his director’s<br />
position to take a position in athletic fundraising and<br />
was director of athletic development until his<br />
retirement in December 2007.<br />
Harry, a Hofstra alumnus who received his bachelor’s<br />
in history in 1970 and master’s in educational<br />
administration in 1990, had been a fixture at Hofstra<br />
since the 1960’s. After a stellar four-year football<br />
playing career at Hofstra, where he was 1968 team<br />
captain and the third recipient of the Mayor’s Trophy,<br />
Harry served as an assistant football coach under<br />
three head coaches, Howard “Howdy” Myers, Bill<br />
Leete and Mickey Kwiatkowski, from 1969 through<br />
1987. During this time, he served as a position coach<br />
and defensive coordinator with the Flying Dutchmen<br />
and made three NCAA Championship appearances.<br />
He also served as an assistant lacrosse coach under<br />
Myers from 1971 through 1975 before replacing the<br />
legendary Hall of Fame coach upon his retirement in<br />
1976. Harry directed the Flying Dutchmen lacrosse<br />
program as head coach from 1976 through 1985,<br />
compiling a 58-55 record and leading the program to<br />
a Top 13 ranking or better in five of those 10 years.<br />
14<br />
In 1978 he led the<br />
Flying Dutchmen to<br />
an 8-5 record, an<br />
NCAA Championship<br />
Tournament bid and a<br />
seventh-place national<br />
ranking.<br />
Harry became<br />
Hofstra’s assistant director of athletics in 1985,<br />
serving as team administrator for numerous<br />
programs, including football and lacrosse. In 1995 he<br />
was promoted to associate director of athletics for<br />
compliance and university eligibility.<br />
Harry has served as tournament director for the<br />
highly successful NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse<br />
Championship-Northern Quarterfinals at Hofstra<br />
Stadium in 1997 and 1998, and was a member and<br />
chairman of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Committee.<br />
In 2007 Harry was recognized for his contributions<br />
to the sport of lacrosse as he was a recipient of a<br />
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Intercollegiate<br />
Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association.<br />
Harry and his wife of more than 40 years, Mary, have<br />
three children – Michael, Paul and Daniel.
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