Ron Maierhofer
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| Full name | Ronald P. Maierhofer | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1935 (age 88–89) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Buffalo, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1956–1959 | Cornell Big Red | ||||||||||||||||
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| United States Pan-American | |||||||||||||||||
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Ronald P. Maierhofer is a retired American soccer forward who owned the Denver Avalanche of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Player
[edit]Maierhofer graduated from the Park School of Buffalo, New York in 1953. At Park, he was a four-year soccer letterman. Maierhofer also achieved All-League honors in basketball, track and baseball. He is a member of the Park School Hall of Fame. He then attended Cornell University where he was a 1959 Second Team All American soccer player.[1] In addition to playing soccer, he was also a midfielder on the lacrosse team in 1958 and 1959 and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He graduated in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and was inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1959, he played for the U.S. soccer team which placed third at the Pan American Games. However, the matches were not counted as official U.S. national team matches. He briefly played for a team based in Toronto.
Team owner
[edit]In 1979, Maierhofer was the Vice President of Operations for IHS Inc. when he decided he wanted to own a soccer team. He decided to place the team in Denver, Colorado and after a successful application to Major Indoor Soccer League, he was awarded the franchise in February 1980. The team played two seasons in MISL before entering bankruptcy in 1983.
References
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[edit]- 1935 births
- Living people
- American lacrosse players
- American soccer chairmen and investors
- American men's soccer players
- Men's association football forwards
- Cornell Big Red men's lacrosse players
- Cornell Big Red men's soccer players
- Soccer players from New York (state)
- Sportspeople from Buffalo, New York
- Footballers at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in football
- Lacrosse players from New York (state)
- 20th-century American sportsmen