Former Michigan Tech hockey player Mark Olson passed away Saturday at the age of 98. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Tech University)

HOUGHTON — Former Michigan Tech hockey captain Mark Olson passed away on Saturday, Jan. 3, in Peoria, Illinois, at the age of 98.

Olson, a native of Marquette, Michigan, was a four-year letter winner and three-time most valuable player for Michigan Tech in hockey and captained the Huskies in the 1948-49 and 1949-50 seasons. He scored 50 goals and had 68 assists during his career at Tech and went on to play seven seasons of semiprofessional hockey.

Olson was inducted into the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.

In 1963, Olson moved to Peoria, Ill., where he was instrumental in starting and organizing hockey in that community.