Unitas Stadium Broadcast Booth Named for Steve Murfin
The place where Steve Murfin spent most of his college days watching Towson State College sports will be permanently named for him at a pre-game ceremony on October 4 when Towson's football team hosts Northeaster University.
The booth will be named The Steven J. Murfin Broadcast Booth. The plaque naming Murfin will also include the inscription: Steven J. Murfin, Author, The Perfect Season - A Story About the Undefeated 1974 Towson State College Football Team.
Murfin, who was the PA Announcer and Sports Information Director while a student at Towson from 1973 - 1977, wrote the book in 2004 during a 30th Anniversary celebration of the Towson team that was one of only four teams in all of college football that year to go undefeated. The others were Alabama, Oklahoma and UNLV. It was also the first college team in Maryland football history to finish a 10-win undefeated season.
The 1974 team, including Murfin, was honored with an induction in the Towson Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.
The Towson football team moved from Burdick Field to the current stadium in 1978. The stadium was named after former Baltimore Colt great and NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Johnny Unitas in 2001. A phase of the refurbishing of Unitas Stadium at Towson will feature a Ring of Honor of outstanding Towson teams and athletes. Murfin pushed the Towson athletic administration to make the 1974 Towson football team as the first team to be honored in the ring.
"That team's success was the first step of a long process that helped Towson go from a good Division III program to where it is today as one of the best college athletic programs of its size on the East Coast. It is only appropriate that the 1974 team be recognized, not only for its undefeated season, but for what it did for the university's athletic programs for years to come," said Murfin
"I spent many years sitting outdoors at little Burdick Field with a capacity crowd of 4,000 chronicling those Towson teams including the 1976 team that went to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in the Division III National Championship. To be honored with the naming of an important part of this stadium, and to have my name associated with the great Johnny Unitas, one of my sports heroes growing up, is an honor far beyond anything I could have ever dreamed when I was in college watching Towson play football."
Murfin, is the Executive Director of FHSC-Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Frederick Health Services Corporation and the Head Baseball Coach at Blake High School in Silver Spring, MD. Murfin also owns an amateur baseball team, the Olney Orioles. He is the Play-by-Play Announcer of High School basketball for Video on Location which broadcasts the Montgomery County High School Game of the Week.