Herb Brooks

✶August 5, 1937

†August 11, 2003

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About their life

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. Brooks' team upset the heavily favored Soviet team in a match that came to be known as the "Miracle on Ice".

American ice hockey player and coach (1937–2003)

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Biography from the article Herb Brooks on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.