Marion Delmar Ritchie (1875 – May 24, 1916) was an American football coach and physician. He served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for one season, in 1898, compiling a record of 4–4–2. He also coached at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio in 1899.

Ritchie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1875. A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he played college football as a halfback at Dickinson College in 1893. Ritchie also attended Lafayette College before graduating from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. Thereafter he practiced medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ritchie died at his home in Pittsburgh on May 24, 1916.

M. Delmar Ritchie

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1875 births

1916 deaths

19th-century players of American football

American football halfbacks

Dickinson Red Devils football players

Gettysburg Bullets football coaches

Franklin & Marshall Diplomats football coaches

Vermont Catamounts football coaches

Dickinson College alumni

Lafayette College alumni

Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops football coaches

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni

Sportspeople from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Sportspeople from Philadelphia

Physicians from Pennsylvania

Players of American football from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Players of American football from Philadelphia

M. Delmar Ritchie