Ron Maierhofer

Ron Maierhofer is an American retired soccer forward who later became a team owner in indoor soccer. He graduated from the Park School of Buffalo, New York, in 1953, where he was a four-year soccer letterman, earned all-league honours in basketball, track and baseball, and was later inducted into the Park School Hall of Fame. At Cornell University he was a second team All American in soccer in 1959 and also played midfield for the lacrosse team in 1958 and 1959, and after graduating in 1960 with a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations he was inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1959 he played for the United States soccer team that placed third at the Pan American Games, although those matches were not counted as official national team matches, and he briefly played for a team based in Toronto. In 1980 he was awarded a Major Indoor Soccer League franchise in Denver, Colorado, and owned the Denver Avalanche for the two seasons before the club entered bankruptcy in 1983.