Herb Brooks
Sign in to saveHerbert 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".
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brooks
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Saint Paul
- Place of death
- Forest Lake
- Occupation
- ice hockey player
- Participant in
- 1964 Winter Olympics
- Sport
- ice hockey
- Position played
- defenseman
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Herb Brooks 1983.JPG
- Height
- 178
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- date of birth
- 1937-08-05
- date of death
- 2003-08-11
- manner of death
- accidental death
- Commons category
- Herb Brooks
- cause of death
- traffic collision
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