title: Franny Murray
text: # Franny Murray
  
  Francis Thomas Murray (July 21, 1915 – June 28, 1998) was an American football player and college athletics administrator. He played professionally as a halfback and punter in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1939 to 1940. Murray played college football at the University of Pennsylvania and was drafted in the second round of the 1937 NFL Draft. He served as the athletic director at his alma mater, Penn, from 1950 to 1953.
  
  Murray died on June 28, 1998, at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, from complications of a stroke he had suffered four years prior.
  
  