Ty Andersen, a defenseman on the 1932 US Olympic hockey team who also coached the Swampscott High School team to North Shore League championships in 1958, 1959 and 1963, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday in AtlantiCare Medical Center in Lynn. He was 80 and lived in Swampscott.
Mr. Andersen, born in Oslo and brought to the United States by his parents at an early age, starred as a quarterback in football and a shortstop in baseball as well as hockey player at Swampscott High, where he graduated from in 1926.
He was inducted into the school's hockey hall of fame in 1955 and into its football hall of fame in November. He was the school's hockey coach from 1948 to 1972.
Defeated by Canada, the 1932 US Olympic team he played on won the silver medal.
Born Osbjorn Andersen, but known since high school as Ty, he skated with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls in the Eastern League from 1927 to 1933 and with the Boston Olympics from 1933 to 1947.
The Amateur Athletic Union voted Mr. Andersen the outstanding nonprofessional hockey player in the country in 1933.
Mr. Andersen worked from the late 1940s until recent years as a self-employed landscape gardener.
He leaves two sons, Ty Andersen of the Air Force in Strongville, Ohio, and Dean of Swampscott; a daughter, Johanne Massey of Swampscott; a brother, Harold of Irvine, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Solimine and Rhodes Funeral Home in Lynn.
Burial will be in Swampscott Cemetery.
(Published February 2, 1989 in the Boston Globe)
Mr. Andersen, born in Oslo and brought to the United States by his parents at an early age, starred as a quarterback in football and a shortstop in baseball as well as hockey player at Swampscott High, where he graduated from in 1926.
He was inducted into the school's hockey hall of fame in 1955 and into its football hall of fame in November. He was the school's hockey coach from 1948 to 1972.
Defeated by Canada, the 1932 US Olympic team he played on won the silver medal.
Born Osbjorn Andersen, but known since high school as Ty, he skated with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls in the Eastern League from 1927 to 1933 and with the Boston Olympics from 1933 to 1947.
The Amateur Athletic Union voted Mr. Andersen the outstanding nonprofessional hockey player in the country in 1933.
Mr. Andersen worked from the late 1940s until recent years as a self-employed landscape gardener.
He leaves two sons, Ty Andersen of the Air Force in Strongville, Ohio, and Dean of Swampscott; a daughter, Johanne Massey of Swampscott; a brother, Harold of Irvine, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Solimine and Rhodes Funeral Home in Lynn.
Burial will be in Swampscott Cemetery.
(Published February 2, 1989 in the Boston Globe)
Ty Andersen, a defenseman on the 1932 US Olympic hockey team who also coached the Swampscott High School team to North Shore League championships in 1958, 1959 and 1963, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday in AtlantiCare Medical Center in Lynn. He was 80 and lived in Swampscott.
Mr. Andersen, born in Oslo and brought to the United States by his parents at an early age, starred as a quarterback in football and a shortstop in baseball as well as hockey player at Swampscott High, where he graduated from in 1926.
He was inducted into the school's hockey hall of fame in 1955 and into its football hall of fame in November. He was the school's hockey coach from 1948 to 1972.
Defeated by Canada, the 1932 US Olympic team he played on won the silver medal.
Born Osbjorn Andersen, but known since high school as Ty, he skated with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls in the Eastern League from 1927 to 1933 and with the Boston Olympics from 1933 to 1947.
The Amateur Athletic Union voted Mr. Andersen the outstanding nonprofessional hockey player in the country in 1933.
Mr. Andersen worked from the late 1940s until recent years as a self-employed landscape gardener.
He leaves two sons, Ty Andersen of the Air Force in Strongville, Ohio, and Dean of Swampscott; a daughter, Johanne Massey of Swampscott; a brother, Harold of Irvine, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Solimine and Rhodes Funeral Home in Lynn.
Burial will be in Swampscott Cemetery.
(Published February 2, 1989 in the Boston Globe)
Mr. Andersen, born in Oslo and brought to the United States by his parents at an early age, starred as a quarterback in football and a shortstop in baseball as well as hockey player at Swampscott High, where he graduated from in 1926.
He was inducted into the school's hockey hall of fame in 1955 and into its football hall of fame in November. He was the school's hockey coach from 1948 to 1972.
Defeated by Canada, the 1932 US Olympic team he played on won the silver medal.
Born Osbjorn Andersen, but known since high school as Ty, he skated with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls in the Eastern League from 1927 to 1933 and with the Boston Olympics from 1933 to 1947.
The Amateur Athletic Union voted Mr. Andersen the outstanding nonprofessional hockey player in the country in 1933.
Mr. Andersen worked from the late 1940s until recent years as a self-employed landscape gardener.
He leaves two sons, Ty Andersen of the Air Force in Strongville, Ohio, and Dean of Swampscott; a daughter, Johanne Massey of Swampscott; a brother, Harold of Irvine, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Solimine and Rhodes Funeral Home in Lynn.
Burial will be in Swampscott Cemetery.
(Published February 2, 1989 in the Boston Globe)
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