Syracuse, N.Y. -- They packed into Hendricks Chapel on campus here Friday afternoon to say goodbye to the husband, father, grandfather and football coach who will forever be part of this city he called home.
For close to 90 minutes, they remembered Dick MacPherson as all of those things and more in a moving funeral service just steps away from the building in which he revitalized a program.
MacPherson's maple casket sat in the front of the sanctuary with bouquets of flowers and three pictures serving as a backdrop, including a silhouette of the Hall of Fame coach overlooking the practice field high atop his tower and one with his arms raised to the heavens in celebration on the Carrier Dome sideline.