Iowa State Hockey and Al Murdoch: Building a Dream

During five decades, Alan Murdoch played for, coached and managed the Iowa State Cyclone hockey team, making a life’s work out of his personal resourcefulness and initiative. Iowa State grew into a premier program in non-scholarship hockey, and as the network of similar teams became increasingly formalized under the auspices of the American Collegiate Hockey Association – an organization to which Murdoch was an essential contributor – the Cyclones played at a...