EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was published on Nov. 10, 2011. Roger Christian, one-half of the Warroad, Minn., based brothers who helped lead the U.S. hockey team to the 1960 gold medal, died Wednesday at ...
With all the excitement of this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and the 50th anniversary of the 1960 winter games, Mike Mooney wanted to re-live his adventure at the Squaw Valley Olympics. So, he ...
TOPEKA, Kan.—Edwyn “Bob” Owen, who played on the 1960 team that won the first Olympic gold medal in hockey for the United States, was found dead in a burning car. He was 71. Investigators have not ...
Jack Riley’s hockey journey began at Medford High and led him through Dartmouth College, the 1948 US Olympic team, and the 1949 World Championships, when he led the US squad as a player-coach. But ...
WARROAD, Minn. (AP)-- Roger Christian, who helped the U.S. hockey team win the 1960 Olympic gold medal, died Wednesday. He was 75. Roger and brother Billy Christian were linemates on the U.S. team in ...
It wasn’t like they came from someplace where nobody could play the game. The United States almost always brought hockey medals home from the Olympics – six, to be exact, over the first eight times ...
Earlier this winter, The Chronicle caught up with Paul Johnson, the U.S. hockey hero who scored the game-winning goal against Canada at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics. That 2-1 victory was the ...
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Jack Riley, the Army hockey coach who in 1960 guided the U.S. to its first Olympic gold medal in hockey, has died. He was 95. He died Wednesday on Cape Cod, Mass., the U.S.
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) Jack Riley, the Army hockey coach who in 1960 guided the U.S. to its first Olympic gold medal in hockey, has died. He was 95. He died Wednesday on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the ...
In the American Hockey League season of 1960-61, the Springfield Indians were so dominant, their opponents sometimes would resort to overly-rough play in an attempt to slow down owner Eddie Shore's ...
Captain and defenseman Jack Kirrane was standing on the podium in Squaw Valley, Calif., in February 1960 to accept the gold medal on behalf of the US Olympic hockey team when his knees began to shake ...
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. — It’s the kind of gathering that men pushing 70 might hold to toast a beloved high school coach after his passing. Just one difference. The coach of the ’67 and ’68 St. Paul ...