Career
Ryman played baseball and hockey for Minnesota and was the hockey team captain for the 1931-1932 season. Ryman coached the Minnesota Golden Gophers men"s hockey team in the 1955-1956 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. Subsequently, Ryman served as the national team coach himself, from 1958-1959. in 1960, Ryman was a referee at the 1960 Winter Olympics.
Later, Ryman became the Gophers" athletic director from 1963 to 1972, when the University forced Ryman to resign.
In 1978, he was elected to the National Association of College Athletic Directors Hall of Fame. Ryman died of pneumonia in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota in 1992.
He is interred in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
