Charlie Guy, Jr.

.....a Lacrosse Player in his Youth

Severn School,  Severna Park, MD, 1941-42

As further preparation for his admission into the US Navy Academy, Charlie attended the Severn School (U.S.N.A. Prep School) in Severna Park just outside of Annapolis, MD, the home of the Naval Academy. In the spring of 1942, after co-captaining the football team in the fall and wrestling in the winter, Charlie first experienced lacrosse and made the All-Maryland School Lacrosse Team

US Naval Academy,  Annapolis, MD, Class of 1946 (1942-1945)

In addition to playing lacrosse, Charlie, during his three years* at the Naval Academy was a standout football player as an offensive end and also competed on the wrestling team. It was lacrosse, however, for which Charlie would demonstrate his deepest passion and an exceptional ability.

1942-1943:  1st string defense Navy’s National Championship Team

1943-1944:  2^nd Team All American as a defender

1944-1945:

• 1^st Team All American as a defender & Captain of Navy’s National Championship Team

• 1st Navy lacrosse player ever awarded the William C. Schmeisser Award as the nation's most outstanding defenseman. 

• Awarded Navy's Stuart Oxnard Miller Memorial Lacrosse Cup as the team's Most Valuable Player.

 

*In the World War II era, many midshipmen were commissioned after three years at the Academy, as was the case with Charlie. Most lacrosse historians feel that had he returned for the 1946 season, he would have again repeated as an All American. Nevertheless, his personal athletic performance and the Navy record for these three years is truly remarkable.

.....a College Lacrosse Coach: University of Virginia 1948-1950

Many longtime and current UVA lacrosse supporters believe that Charlie’s 1949 and 1950 teams represent the Dawning of UVA Lacrosse with:

• The 1st winning season in the school’s history: 1949 (7-4) 1950 (8-3)    Combined record of 15-7 (.682%)

• The 1st team to defeat a nationally ranked power: in 1949 defeated Rensselear Polytechnic, 9-8, ending their 34-game winning streak

• The development of 13 All American lacrosse players including Gordon Jones as the 1952 Jack Turnbull Award as top collegiate attackman & UVA’s 1st National Lacrosse Hall of Fame player, Bill Hooper in 1975

• The first ever victory over a Naval Academy lacrosse team: scrimmage held March 1950 (7-5)

• The 1st nationally recognized coach as a South coach in 1949 USILA North South Game won by the South

.....a Competitive Club Player

In his Youth: Mount Washington Lacrosse Club, Baltimore, MD, 1947- 1948 

In Senior Tournament Play: At age 69, he returned to active competitive lacrosse as the sport's oldest ever player.

• Severn School Odd vs. Even: 1994
• Navy Old Goats, Vail, CO : 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, & 1999*
• Tampa Bay Thunder LAX Club : 1995 & 1996
• US Naval Academy Odd vs. Even : 1996, 1997, & 1998
• Grand Master LAX Game, Baltimore, MD : 1998

*In Charlie’s last game at age 75, he was assessed a 1 minute penalty for unnecessary roughness!

.....a Supporter of Youth Lacrosse

In Charlie’s later years, he returned again to the passion instilled from his UVA lacrosse coaching at days by using the fruits of his personal financial successes to support the development of new young lacrosse players.

South Tampa Sticks, Tampa, FL

Charlie became a major financial supporter of this first ever Tampa youth lacrosse program. During several key times in STS’s development, he provided the funds needed for such items as new field development. STS’s successful middle school programs (boys & girls) have provided the increasing supply of talented lacrosse players who have then helped create a very competitive South Tampa high school lacrosse environment with teams at Plant High, Jesuit, Tampa Prep, and soon Robinson High. With a major financial contribution by STS, a new artificial field is now being installed at Plant High for use in 2010 by its football team and in 2011 for STS sanctioned lacrosse games.

In addition to developing and managing its youth feeder middle school programs, STS has also developed and managed the first ever varsity lacrosse team at Plant High, which in 2006, won the West Florida Lacrosse League Championship and the first ever Club State Championship.

With Charlie’s death in May 2010, his family was empowered to continue his major financial support of STS through The Charlie Guy, Jr. LAX Fund.

Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

During his lifetime, Charlie was a substantial and consistent financial supporter of not only the lacrosse program, but also football and to a lesser degree wrestling. His single largest lifetime contribution was, however, a leadership contribution for the Hall of Players and Coaches Wing of the recently completed Bilderback-Moore Navy Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Upon his death in May 2010, Charlie will continue to support the Naval Academy with the largest portion of his substantial estate being directed to Navy sports: lacrosse, football, and wrestling.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Jack Murray, Jr., Charlie’s long time business partner and friend, and Jack Murray, lll, ’85 UVA, through The Jack Murray Family of Tampa, is working in conjunction with The Charlie Guy, Jr. LAX Fund and personal friends, business associates, former UVA players and supporters to honor Charlie, Jr.’s coaching years at UVA by establishing within the University’s Athletic Foundation The Charles Howgate Guy, Jr. Endowed Lacrosse Scholarship. 

.....a Community Contributor

College Football

Charlie was very active in the University of Tampa’s football support group: The Sword & Shield Club

Pro Football in Tampa Bay

Charlie was the co-chairman of the local sport's committee to raise the funds needed for the initial feasibility study that was to later lead to the building of the 1st Tampa Stadium that positioned our community to later attract the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For his contributions to this sport, he was named the 1995 Tampa Chapter Recipient of the National Football Foundation & Hall of Fame.

Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church

Charlie was a very active member of the church and attended the men’s prayer group, Followers of the Way, for nearly 20 years. Over the years, he personally recruited many of the current members to this Monday noon gathering.

Homeless Families

Charlie was a very active financial supporter of Metropolitan Ministries who have been helping the Tampa Bay Area for over 35 years by offering the homeless shelters and volunteer work.

Why the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Needs Charlie Guy, Jr.!

The uniqueness of Charlie’s lacrosse experiences and accomplishments that so positively influenced and spawned his extraordinarily successful business results and his most generous philanthropic efforts provides timeless true life examples of the values and virtues of playing this truly North American sport.

Charlie’s lacrosse experiences and accomplishments demonstrate clearly that lacrosse is a sport…..

…that even young player from a poor or of moderate means family can still successfully participate.

Charlie, from a family of very moderate means, lived above a Chicago deli so he that could finish his high school senior year when his dad was transferred to Birmingham, AL. Without his Naval Academy appointment, his post high school year at Severn and his college education may well have been instead replaced with his immediate deployment to serve in WW ll.

…a young person may begin this sport at any age as a novice and still achieve greatness…if they are willing be FULLY committed and work tirelessly:

Charlie first played lacrosse at age 17 having never even seen a lacrosse stick! In but only 4 years of lacrosse competition as a youth, he earned All-Maryland School Lacrosse Team honors in high school and at Naval Academy played on two National Championship teams, earned All American recognition for 2 years, and was the Most Outstanding Defensive Player in the country while serving as team captain. But for an early Naval Commission to serve in WW ll, he surely would have been an ALL American for 3 out of his 4 years!

…where dedicated and experienced coaching can achieve immediate & dramatic successes even with novice players:

• Charlie and 3 of his fellow novice lax players at Severn went on to make collegiate All American status as a result of the exceptional coaching and teaching ability of Coaches Paul Kesmodel and Parker Lindsay who in 10 years produced 9 collegiate All Americans.

• Charlie, as UVA’s 1^st full time paid coach, produced their 1^st ever-winning team in 1949 & again in 1950. Thirteen of those players ultimately became All Americans, one whom, Billy Hooper, was named in 1975 as UVA’s 1^st member the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Charlie’s 1^st year coaching results earned him national recognition with a South All-Star Coaching Staff position on the winning South Team in for the 1949 USILA North South Game.

…that allows a player with freedom to be a successful mutli-sport athlete:

Charlie during his 3 years at Navy participated in 3 sports: lacrosse, football, and wrestling.

…that allows the most dedicated & hardest working person, not necessarily the most gifted athlete to achieve excellence:

Charlie only played 4 years of organized lacrosse, 1 year at the Severn School (All-Maryland School Lacrosse Team)and 3 years at Navy:

• 1^st team defense all 3 years 
• All American for 2 years
• 2 National Championship Teams, Caption for 1945 team
• William C. Schmeisser Award(nation’s most outstanding defenseman in men's college lacrosse)
• Navy’s Stuart Oxnard Miller Memorial Lacrosse Cup as the team's most valuable player

…that is truly a sport that can be enjoyed for life.

His successes in his prior businesses and during his retirement years finally allowed him, at age 69, to devote again some of his time to his true passion, competitive club lacrosse, as lacrosse historians will attest…as the oldest person to ever compete competitively in lacrosse!

Senior Tournament Play:

• Severn School Odd vs. Even: 1994
• Navy Old Goats, Vail, CO : 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, & 1999*
• Tampa Bay Thunder LAX Club : 1995 & 1996
• US Naval Academy Odd vs. Even : 1996, 1997, & 1998
• Grand Master LAX Game, Baltimore, MD : 1998

*In Charlie’s last game at age 75, he was assessed a 1 minute penalty for unnecessary roughness!

…that teaches a young player the sports principles,if then later applied in life, that can become the life principles that will truly transform lives…the player’s life and those around him/her for whom he/she cares.

From all my years of listening to and observing my father, I have learned that Charlie fully believed that his life had been positively transformed by his competitive lacrosse experiences. As he became more and more successful in his business career, which he credited in great part to the sports principles he learned playing lacrosse, and then had applied to his life principles, he could then return again to the passion instilled in him from his UVA lacrosse coaching days.

He bean in earnest to  by using the fruits of his personal financial successes to support the development of new young lacrosse players.  His philanthropic efforts, both during his lifetime and now with his death (May 2010), will be in excess of $4,000,000 and will hopefully help to transform many new additional lives through playing the sport of lacrosse.

We, Charlie’s family, believe so strongly in his beliefs that we will personally keep his spirit alive by continuing to financially support youth lacrosse through The Charlie Guy, Jr., LAX Fund with our strong family belief that…….Winning Smart Improves Lives!

 

We, Charlie Jr. 's family, truly believe that the US National Lacrosse Hall of Fame NEEDS Charlie Guy, Jr. as one of its newest members to insure that future generations of lacrosse players will be exposed to his lacrosse experiences and accomplishments that so dramatically demonstrate the power of playing the sport to successfully transform peoples lives.

We therefore would respectfully ask all of you visiting this web site:

• to spend the time to learn more about this truly remarkable man and the uniqueness of his lacrosse experiences and accomplishments that can so positively honor the sport of lacrosse and more importantly help to transform the lives many our youthful players in this country.

• to support and help us to gain Charlie Guy, Jr.’s induction into The US Lacrosse's.....

 .....Florida Gulf Coast Chapter's  Lacrosse Hall of Fame

and 

.....National Lacrosse Hall of Fame

The family of Charlie Guy, Jr. thanks you for your time and consideration.

C3 (Charles H. Guy, lll) & wife,  Linda

Chuck Guy (Charles H. Guy, IV),  grandson

Nat Guy (John N. Guy)  grandson & wife,  Noriko, & sons Keita & Jack

Kathy Guy Doughty, & husband Bill Doughty

Doug Martin, stepson, wife, Debbie, & son, Marlon

Allyn Martin, stepson