Bob Cleary
Appearance
Bob Cleary | |||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | April 21, 1936||||||||||||||||
Died |
September 16, 2015 Hyannis, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1951–1960 | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Robert Barry Cleary (April 21, 1936 – September 16, 2015) was an American ice hockey player.[1] Cleary was a member of the American 1960 Winter Olympics team that won the gold medal, teaming up as he did at Harvard with his brother Bill. Bob was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981.
While at Harvard, the Cleary brothers played collegiate summer baseball together for the now defunct Sagamore Clouters of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[2]
Awards and honors
Award | Year |
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AHCA Second Team All-American | 1956–57 |
AHCA East All-American | 1957–58 |
References
- ^ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonherald/obituary.aspx?pid=175874053
- ^ "Ivy League players in the Cape League". capecodbaseball.org. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- United States Hockey Hall of Fame bio
Categories:
- 1936 births
- 2015 deaths
- American men's ice hockey centers
- Bourne Braves players
- Cape Cod Baseball League players (pre-modern era)
- Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey players
- Ice hockey people from Massachusetts
- Ice hockey players at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in ice hockey
- United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
- AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- American ice hockey center stubs