Laurie Davidson Cox (August 18, 1883 – October 1, 1968) was a leading American landscape architect and Hall of Fame coach and contributor to the sport of lacrosse.
Cox then attended Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude in 1908 with a Landscape Architecture degree.
Revolutionary at the time, Cox recognized the changing American culture and the automobile and included many "windshield" views throughout the 240 miles (390 km) park length.
[9] In 1915, Cox was appointed an associate professor of Landscape Engineering at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University.
Outside of academics and landscape architecture, Cox is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the game of lacrosse in the United States.
[2] Once 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.
[16] Cox thought of field lacrosse as a gentleman's game that could rise to prominence among collegiate sports.
As a matter of principle and respect for the amateur tradition of the game, Cox accepted no salary for his coaching responsibilities.
His insistence, and the respect he garnered from fellow coaches and contributors, kept the field game the prevalent version played in America.
[21] From 1922 to 1933, when the first lacrosse All-American committee was established (which Cox would serve as Chairman), he would select the honorees and even designed and furnished the certificates to the players.