Robert McVey
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Full name | Robert Patrick McVey | ||||||||||||||
Born | March 14, 1936 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | (age 88)||||||||||||||
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Robert Patrick "Bob" McVey (born March 14, 1936 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American ice hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics, bringing home the US's first Olympic Hockey Gold Medal. He went to Harvard and then onto the Olympics. He lived in Hamden, Connecticut and now lives in Florida.
He attended Choate Rosemary Hall and graduated in the class of 1954.
References
- Kevin Allen. "The First Miracle on Ice". ESPN.
- Kevin Allen (1997). USA Hockey: A Celebration of a Great Tradition : the Official Commemorative Book.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bob McVey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
Categories:
- 1936 births
- American ice hockey defensemen
- Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey players
- Ice hockey people from Connecticut
- Ice hockey players at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in ice hockey
- Sportspeople from Hartford, Connecticut
- American ice hockey defenseman stubs
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs