 He was selected as the captain of the 1882 and 1883 teams.He later became the president of the Chemung Canal Trust Company in Elmira, New York.Both the Ray Tompkins Memorial, originally a 720 acre wilderness in northwest New Haven, home to the Yale Golf Course, and the Ray Tompkins House on campus, which home to Yale's Athletic Department, were built through a bequest from his wife, Sarah Wey Tompkins.