Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: philadelphia , pennsylvania - years active: 1886 -- 1913 - known for: track coach , athletic trainer , football coach - caption: mike the philadelphia inquirer '' murphy , illustration from 1913 obituary in '' - citizenship: united states - death date: 4 june 1913 - birth date: 26 february 1860 - name: mike murphy - image size: 200px - birthname: michael charles murphy - image: mike murphy -lrb- trainer -rrb- . jpg - birth place: southboro , massachusetts , or westboro , massachusetts Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mike murphy -lrb- trainer and coach -rrb- .
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michael charles '' mike '' murphy -lrb- february 26 , 1860 -- june 4 , 1913 -rrb- was an athletic trainer and coach at yale university -lrb- 1887 -- 1889 , 1892 -- 1896 , 1901 -- 1905 -rrb- , detroit athletic club -lrb- 1889 -- 1892 -rrb- , university of michigan -lrb- 1891 -rrb- , villanova university -lrb- 1894 -rrb- , university of pennsylvania -lrb- 1896 -- 1901 , 1905 -- 1913 -rrb- , and the new york athletic club -lrb- 1890 -- 1900 -rrb- .he also coached the american track athletes at the summer olympics in 1900 , 1908 , and 1912 .he also spent a year in approximately 1884 as the trainer of heavyweight boxing champion john l. sullivan .'' the washington post '' in 1913 called murphy '' the father of american track athletics . ''he was considered the premier athletic trainer of his era and was said to have '' revolutionized the methods of training athletes and reduced it to a science . ''he is credited with establishing many innovative techniques for track and field , including the crouching start for sprinters .