Marsh Ryman

{{short description|American ice hockey player and coach, college athletics administrator}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''Marshall W. "Marsh" Ryman''' (June 26, 1910 – January 31, 1992) was a collegiate hockey coach and athletic director at the University of Minnesota. Ryman played baseball and hockey for Minnesota and was the hockey team captain for the 1931–32 season.<ref>[http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39243&SPID=3322&DB_OEM_ID=8400&ATCLID=272433 "All-Time Golden Gopher Team Captains"]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Access Date August 8, 2008.</ref> Ryman coached the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's hockey team in the 1955–56 season to a 16–12–1 record while John Mariucci coached the United States national men's ice hockey team at the 1956 Winter Olympics.<ref>[http://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/coachHistory.php?cid=2702 "Marsh Ryman Career Record"]. Access Date August 8, 2008.</ref> Subsequently, Ryman served as the national team coach himself, from 1958–59.<ref>Pheifer, Pat. "Former Gophers AD Marsh Ryman dies." ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'', January 31, 1992.</ref> in 1960, Ryman was a referee at the 1960 Winter Olympics.<ref>Associated Press. "Ex-Gophers A.D. Ryman Dies of Pneumonia at 81." ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', February 1, 1992.</ref> Later, Ryman became the Gophers' athletic director from 1963 to 1972, when the University forced Ryman to resign.<ref>"Warmath, Ryman Said Out." ''Washington Post'', November 27, 1971.</ref> He won the 1972 George Eldridge Distinguished Service Award for his work in that position.<ref>[http://nacda.cstv.com/cabma/nacda-cabma-awards-eldridge.html "George Eldridge Distinguished Service Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029084412/http://nacda.cstv.com/cabma/nacda-cabma-awards-eldridge.html |date=2006-10-29 }}. Access Date August 8, 2008.</ref> In 1978, he was elected to the National Association of College Athletic Directors Hall of Fame.<ref>Associated Press. "Ex-Gophers A.D. Ryman Dies of Pneumonia at 81." ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', February 1, 1992.</ref> Ryman died of pneumonia in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in 1992. He is interred in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.<ref>Pheifer, Pat. "Former Gophers AD Marsh Ryman dies." ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'', January 31, 1992.</ref>

==Head coaching record== {{CBB Yearly Record Start |type = coach |conference = |postseason = }} {{CIH yearly record subhead |name = {{color|white|Minnesota Golden Gophers}} |color = color:white; background:#862334; {{box-shadow border|a|#FBB93C|2px}} |startyear = 1955 |conflong = Western Collegiate Hockey Association |conference = WIHL |endyear = 1956 |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1955–56 | name = Minnesota | overall = 16–12–1 | conference = 11–10–1 | confstanding = 4th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Minnesota | overall = 16–12–1 | confrecord = 11–10–1 }} {{CBB Yearly Record End |overall = 16–12–1 |conference = }}

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