Church Yearley

Church Yearley became a lacrosse enthusiast at age 13, after being taught by Douglass Turnbull, who himself later was inducted into the Hall of Fame. At City College Yearley was appointed captain of the lacrosse team and selected for the All-American Scholastic Team. He was a regular member of the John Hopkins team from 1932-34, thus playing at the 1932 Olympics. After graduation, Yearley worked in New York, where he joined the Brooklyn Crescent Club. In 1936 he returned to Baltimore to play with the Mt. Washington Club, the most successful American club of the time, but continued to work in New York.

During World War II, Yearley served in the Navy, resuming his banking career in Baltimore after the war. He had to stop officiating lacrosse when he eventually moved to Atlanta, where he became a high ranking manager of the First National Bank. In 1971 he was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He died in 2008, the last survivor of the Los Angeles American lacrosse team.