RYAN GOES TO WISCONSIN WITH REMARKABLE RECORD

John J. Ryan '11, who last fall coached the ends and backs as an assistant to head coach, Jackson Cannell, has been chosen head coach of the University of Wisconsin football team and will be the first all-year football coach at Wisconsin since 1915. The appointment carries with it the rank of Associate Professor of Physical Education. Ryan was the unanimous choice of the Athletic Council and the Regents of the University after more than three score of coaches had been considered for the position.

Few of the younger football coaches in the country have a better record than Jack Ryan who has been active in the sport as a player, scout, official, and coach for twenty years. In 1903-1905 he played at left halfback on the Waterbury, Conn., high school team and in 1906 was quarterback of the New Hampshire State College team. In 1907 Ryan entered Dartmouth, and being ineligible because of the one year rule to represent the college served at quarterback on the "scrub" team. In 1908 he played quarterback on the Dartmouth varsity team; in 1909 he played right halfback; and in 1910, in which year he captained the team, played right end.

Immediately following his graduation from Dartmouth, Ryan was elected Professor of English at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., where he also acted as head coach in charge of all athletics. In the three years he was at St. Thomas his football teams, though meeting strong opposition, did not lose a game. In 1914-15, Ryan acted as a scout in the Western Conference, and as a football official, and in 1916 went to Marquette University, at Milwaukee, as advisory coach. From 1917 to 1921 he was head football coach at Marquette. In 1922 he returned to Dartmouth as an assistant coach.

Under Ryan the Marquette University football team established an enviable record, playing through the 1917 season without a defeat and being scored against only by the famous Great Lakes team composed of football stars gathered from all over the country. Marquette's 1917 record of 348 points to opponents' 7 made it the highest scoring team of the West. Ryan met the first defeat of his coaching career in 1919 when his Marquette team was defeated by the University of Wisconsin.

Throughout the entire period of his coaching Ryan has lost but five games and no team has scored more than 14 points against his teams. In all, Ryan's teams have scored 1548 points to opponents' 151.

Ryan's appointment at Wisconsin is for an indefinite period.