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Jack Riley, U.S. Coach of 1960 Gold Medal Hockey Team, Dies at 95

Jack Riley, a longtime West Point hockey coach who guided a team of bickering amateurs to a startling gold medal in the 1960 Winter Olympics, died on Wednesday on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. He was 95.

His death was announced by West Point.

At a time when professionals were barred from all Olympic sports, the 1960 United States hockey team consisted of 17 amateurs, all from Massachusetts or Minnesota. They received pocket money of $7 a week and had to pay their own expenses. Four showed up for the training camp at West Point by paddling canoes up the Hudson River.