COACH AND EXECUTIVE CAREER
ASSISTANT COACH, BC LIONS 1974
HEAD COACH, BC LIONS 1975-1976
ASSISTANT COACH, MONTREAL ALOUETTES 1977
ASSISTANT COACH, EDMONTON ESKIMOS 1978 – 1982
HEAD COACH & GENERAL MANAGER, WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS 1983 – 1996
OFFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR, SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS 1997 – 1998

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ANNIS STUKUS TROPHY – COACH OF THE YEAR 1983, 1984
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S COMMEMORATIVE 1993

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993
GREY CUP WINNING TEAMS 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990

CAL MURPHY WAS BORN IN WINNIPEG AND MOVED TO VANCOUVER AS A YOUNGSTER.  HE BEGAN HIS ATHLETIC CAREER AT VANCOUVER COLLEGE AND CONTINUED PLAYING FOOTBALL WITH CYO JUNIORS AND UBC, FOLLOWED BY A STINT WITH THE BC LIONS.  CAL BEGAN HIS COACHING CAREER AT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL IN 1956. HE THEN MOVED TO VANCOUVER COLLEGE IN 1960 WHERE HIS SQUAD HAD THE SCHOOL’S ONLY UNDEFEATED FOOTBALL SEASON AGAINST TOP AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

AFTER SPENDING SEVERAL YEARS COACHING AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, MURPHY JOINED THE CFL COACHING RANKS IN 1974 AS AN ASSISTANT COACH TO EAGLE KEYS WITH THE BC LIONS.  HE BECAME HEAD COACH OF THE TEAM IN 1975.  HE SPENT 1977 IN MONTREAL WITH THE ALOUETTES UNDER MARV LEVY AND PICKED UP HIS FIRST GREY CUP WIN THAT YEAR.  IN 1978 HE MOVED TO THE EDMONTON ESKIMOS WITH HUGH CAMPBELL AND WAS PART OF THE EDMONTON DYNASTY THAT WON FIVE CONSECTUTIVE GREY CUPS. 

IN 1983, MURPHY WENT TO THE WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS.  HE SPENT 14 YEARS AS HEAD COACH,  AND GENERAL MANAGER.  HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING THE GREY CUP GAME TO WINNIPEG IN 1991.  DURING HIS TIME IN WINNIPEG, THE BLUE BOMBERS APPEARED IN FIVE GREY CUP GAMES AND WON THREE.

CAL MURPHY IS A MEMBER OF THE VANCOUVER COLLEGE HALL OF FAME AND THE WINNIPEG FOOTBALL CLUB HALL OF FAME. 

INDUCTED 2004 - BUILDER

Class of 2004 Larry Highbaugh, Lui Passaglia, Dan Yochum, Ben Zambiasi