Outside of the American Basketball League, Murphy was the head coach of the Rochester Jeffersons during the 1924 NFL season.
[1] Murphy began his sports career as a basketball player for the Oswego Indians from 1912 to 1915 and the Baslow Globetrotters from 1915 to 1917.
After briefly playing for the Mohawk Indians in 1919, Murphy joined the Rochester Centrals the same year while the team was independent.
Although most of his career was in basketball, Murphy entered American football when he became the head coach of the Rochester Jeffersons in the 1924 NFL season.
[4] Outside of coaching, Murphy was an executive of the American Basketball League[5] and a food columnist for a Rochester newspaper.