Hall of Fame
He attended Clemson College before entering Cornell in 1902. He was captain and quarterback of the 1904 Cornell football team. After receiving his mechanical engineering degree from Cornell in 1905, he worked for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. as an electrical engineer for 15 years, and from 1922 until his retirement in 1929, he worked for General Motors Corp. He served as director of athletics at Cornell from 1935 through 1944. During his tenure, he put Cornell athletics on a sound financial basis. He took the lead in organizing what became the Eastern College Athletic Conference. He instituted the plan for a central office of Eastern intercollegiate athletics and became its first chairman. He was also a strong proponent for a firmer Ivy League. Lynah organized the university's department of athletics, physical education, and women's physical education into a single department. As chairman of a university committee for the development of athletic facilities, during and after he served as director, he set plans in motion which brought about Moakley House and the golf course, Teagle Hall, and an indoor ice skating rink, which was completed in 1957 after Lynah's death in February 1956, and was named in his honor.
