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Herb Brooks

Herb Brooks
Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)

Herbert Paul Brooks was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid. At the Games, Brooks' American team upset the heavily favored Soviet team in a match that came to be known as the "Miracle on Ice."

5 August 1937

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