Olav "Ole" Bernt Kollevoll (January 7, 1923 – September 11, 2010) was an American

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and football player and coach.

Career

Born in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...

, Norway, Kollevoll emigrated to the United States with his parents and grew up in

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. Kollevoll began attending Colgate University in the fall of 1941, playing ice hockey, baseball, and football in his time there. He was an initiate of

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. After graduating from an accelerated program in 1945 Kollevoll joined the

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towards the end of

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. After his tour was over he began a short professional career in both baseball and hockey before retiring following an injury in 1948. Kollevoll became the head coach at

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in 1950 for both the baseball and hockey squads. During his time there he attained his master's degree while leading the Saints to their first two appearances in the

NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship The annual NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is a college ice hockey tournament held in the United States by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to determine the top men's team in Division I. Like other Division I cham ...

. In 1955 Kollevoll returned to his alma mater, taking over as head coach for the ice hockey and freshman football clubs. In 1957 Colgate's hockey program returned to varsity status and became a founding member of

ECAC Hockey ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I college ice hockey, ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United ...

four years later. Kollevoll left Colgate in 1965 to become the

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, remaining there until his retirement in 1989. He died on September 11, 2010.

Head coaching record

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