Eugene L. Murphy (c. 1900 – 1976) was an American football player and coach.

[2] He coached high school football at the then Sacred Heart College (High School Division; now "Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory")in San Francisco for the 1925 season.

[3] In June 1927, he was hired as the athletic director and head football and baseball coach at Columbia University (renamed the University of Portland in 1935.

He retired in December 1936 to enter private business.

[5] He was posthumously inducted into the University of Portland Hall of Fame in 1991.