John J. Ryan
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John Joseph Ryan was an American college football and college basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the College of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1911 to 1912,
Ryan pictured in The Hilltop 1920, Marquette yearbook
Glenn Thistlethwaite
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Glenn Franklin Thistlethwaite was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Illinois College, Earlham C
John J. Ryan
…football team for two seasons, tallying a mark of 5–6–4. He moved to Northwestern University in 1925, where he was the ends coach for five seasons under Glenn Thistlethwaite and Dick Hanley. Ryan returned to Hanley's staff as an assistant coach and scout in 1934, and continued on under Pappy Waldorf until 1939. Ryan served…
Thistlethwaite pictured in Sargasso 1913, Earlham yearbook
Thistlethwaite (left) shakes the hand of Tim Lowry (right) as Lowry receives the 1925 Chicago Tribune Silver Football. In between them is Athletics Director Kenneth L. Wilson