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Andy Rymarczuk

American soccer player (1951-1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4761271
Source-derived summary

Andrew Rymarczuk (1951 – February 23, 1997) is a former U.S. soccer forward. He played three seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least one in the American Soccer League. He also earned five caps with the U.S. national team in 1973.

Youth

Rymarczuk attended North Catholic High School where he was a 1st team All-Catholic player and a member of the 1967 Championship team. A 1969 graduate, he was posthumously inducted into the North Catholic Soccer Hall of Fame in 2009. He attended Penn State where he played on the men's soccer team from 1969 to 1972. He was a third team All American in 1971 and a 1972 first team All American. He scored thirty goals and added nineteen assists during his four years with the Nittany Lions.

Club career

The Rochester Lancers of the North American Soccer League (NASL) drafted Rymarczuk in the first round of the 1973 NASL College Draft. He spent three seasons with the Lancers before being acquired by the expansion Tacoma Tides of the American Soccer League in 1976.

Editorial summary

“Andy Rymarczuk” enters the record as american soccer player (1951-1997). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andy, Rymarczuk and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1997, 1973, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Andy, Rymarczuk and American.
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“Andy Rymarczuk” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Andy, Rymarczuk and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4761271. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1997, 1973 and 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from Andy Rymarczuk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.