One player on that team was Willard Ikola, who did fall in to category (b).
He was another of the players from Eveleth and was on the team with
John Mayasich who went undefeated in high school for four seasons.
However, they went separate ways for college.  Ikola won two titles with
Michigan, including one against Minnesota.

Ikola did play on the silver medal 1956 Olympic team.  But, his greatest
post-college success may have been as a high school coach for Edina, in
Minnesota.  He was there for 33 years and won eight state
championships.  His record there, after a 4-9-5 first season, was 616-149-
38.

Doug Peterson

On 10 Apr 2005 at 14:39, Bob Griebel wrote:

(a) Vic Heyliger
(b) Nobody


Henry wrote:

>Well, now that Denver's done the repeat I got curious and looked at
>the roster of past champions. Wow. In the first ten years of the
>tournament, 1948-57, Michigan was in the final 7 times and won 6. No
>other team has ever come close to that sort of dominance. Does anyone
>know, off the top of his head, (a) who was the coach in those years
>and (b) which players went on to good careers in the NHL?
>
>cheers,
>
>Henry
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