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Those scores gave her first place in the competition, and the gold medal. Albright became the first American woman to capture a Winter Olympic gold medal, and gave the USA one of only two gold medals it would garner in those Winter Games...
While figure skating has produced three gold medals for Harvard Olympians, another ice sport has contributed the rest. The Harvard hockey program, which--along with Brown--is the oldest intercollegiate hockey program in the nation, continually produces some of the best players on the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Harvard has been well represented on the Olympic ice since 1932. when John Chase '28, and John Garrison, '31, coached by Alfred Winsor '02, took the silver medal at Lake Placid...
...team in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia had Fusco, and his brother Mark '83, who had also been honored with the prestigious Hobey Baker Award in 1983, but failed to produce a medal. In 1980, when the Miracle-on-Ice U.S. team upset the Soviet Union and Finland to capture the gold medal for the second time ever, Jack Hughes '80, was an alternate on the squad...
...Olympic team in Squaw Valley, Ca., which brought the Olympic hockey gold home for the first time ever, was stocked with former Crimson stars. The team's leading scorer was Bill Cleary '56 who currently serves as the coach of the Harvard hockey team...
Cleary had played on the 1956 team, which earned a silver medal behind the Soviet Union, and he continued his quest for the gold four years later. The United States had its first-ever gold medal in hockey when the 1960 squad upset the Canadians, the Soviets, and finally, on February 28, 1960, the Czechs...