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Gene Corrigan

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Eugene Francis Corrigan (April 14, 1928 - January 25, 2020) was an American lacrosse player, coach of lacrosse and soccer, and college athletics administrator. He was head men's lacrosse coach at Washington and Lee University from 1956 to 1958 and at the University of Virginia from 1959 to 1967, with a career college lacrosse record of 67-64, and he also coached men's soccer at both schools. He served as athletic director at Virginia and at Notre Dame, as commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference from 1987 to 1995, and as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1995 to 1997. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1993 and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 91.

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