John P. Riley Jr.

Medal record
Men's Ice hockey
Representing the USA
World Championships
Olympics

Jack Riley
Biographical details
Born	June 15, 1920; Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 3, 2016 (aged 95); Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.
Playing career
1940–1942	Dartmouth
1946–1947	Dartmouth
1947–1949	US National Team
1949–1950	Boston Olympics
Position(s)	Left Wing
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1950–1986	Army
1959–1960	US National Team
Head coaching record
Overall	542–343–20 (.610)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	1960 Olympic Gold Medal
Awards
	1957 Spencer Penrose Award; 1960 Spencer Penrose Award; 1979 US Hockey Hall of Fame; 1986 Lester Patrick Award; 1998 International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame; 2002 Lester Patrick Award; 2004 Army Sports Hall of Fame

John Patrick "Jack" Riley (June 15, 1920 – February 3, 2016) was an American ice hockey player and coach. The hockey coach at West Point for more than 35 years, Riley coached the United States to the gold medal at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics, during which he cut future Olympic coach Herb Brooks at the last minute. He played for the U.S. Olympic team at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics.

Biography

Riley was born in Boston in 1920[1][2] and raised in Medford, Massachusetts. He played prep-school hockey at Tabor Academy and was graduated in 1939. He played college hockey at Dartmouth College (1940–1942 and 1946–47) as well as for the U.S. Naval Air Corps (1942–1946). In 1948 he was part of an American team that was disqualified as two rival teams arrived for the Americans at the St. Moritz Olympics. (See Ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics). He was then player-coach of the national team at the 1949 IIHF World Championship.

Riley began his Army coaching career in 1950, remaining the Cadets' head coach through 1986. During his tenure, he twice won the Spencer Penrose Award for NCAA Coach of the Year. He was replaced by one of his sons, Rob Riley in 1986. Another son, Brian Riley, took over the job from Rob in 2004.

Riley's Americans surprised the hockey world going undefeated in winning the country's first Olympic gold medal and second ever.

Riley was inducted in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979, and the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998. He is a two-time winner of the Lester Patrick Trophy, in 1986 (as a coach) and 2002 (as a member of the Olympic gold medal-winning United States hockey team of 1960).

In the 1960s, Riley ran the Eastern Hockey Clinic (a hockey camp for high school age players) in Worcester, Massachusetts. The camp had many NHL players as coaches, including John Ferguson, Tommy Williams (the only American NHL player at the time), Jean Ratelle, and Charlie Hodge. He died on February 3, 2016 at a retirement home in Sandwich, Massachusetts.[1][3]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Army Cadets (Division I Independent) (1950–1961)
1950-51	Army	2-10-1
1951-52	Army	3-12-0
1952-53	Army	8-8-0
1953-54	Army	10-7-0
1954-55	Army	8-8-0
1955-56	Army	11-5-0
1956-57	Army	14-4-0
1957-58	Army	15-4-1
1958-59	Army	9-10-1
1959-60	Army	16-5-1
1960-61	Army	17-8-0
Army:		113-81-4
Army Cadets (ECAC Hockey) (1961–1973)
1961-62	Army	17-6-1	14-4-1	5th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1962-63	Army	17-6-2	12-4-2	6th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1963-64	Army	20-8-0	17-4-0	2nd	ECAC Quarterfinals
1964-65	Army	17-7-0	3-7-0	12th
1965-66	Army	17-7-1	3-6-1	11th
1966-67	Army	15-12-0	4-6-0	10th
1967-68	Army	14-10-0	5-7-0	12th
1968-69	Army	20-7-1	4-6-1	10th
1969-70	Army	13-12-0	5-8-0	11th
1970-71	Army	8-14-1	3-7-1	11th
1971-72	Army	11-14-0	1-9-0	17th
1972-73	Army	9-17-1	1-9-0	17th
Army:		178-120-7	72-77-6
Army Cadets (ECAC 2) (1973–1980)
1973-74	Army	20-7-1
1974-75	Army	18-11-0
1975-76	Army	18-9-1
1976-77	Army	22-6-1
1977-78	Army	13-12-1
1978-79	Army	7-21-0
1979-80	Army	19-12-1
Army:		117-78-5
Army Cadets (ECAC Hockey) (1980–1986)
1980-81	Army	21-13-1	†	†
1981-82	Army	25-11-0	†	†
1982-83	Army	25-11-1	†	†
1983-84	Army	28-5-1	†	†
1984-85	Army	17-13-0	0-11-0	12th
1985-86	Army	18-11-1	2-9-0	11th
Army:		134-64-4	2-20-0
Total:		542-343-20
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

† Army had been admitted to ECAC Hockey but had not begun a conference schedule [4]

References

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/03/jack-riley-who-coached-hockey-team-gold-dies/otgDTneWWuz8Uw34jsGz6J/story.html
Many sources give 1922 as a year of birth, but 1920 is backed by the Society for International Hockey Research and the U.S. Public Records Index
http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=210684565
"2011-12 Army Hockey Media Guide" (PDF). Go Army Sports. Retrieved 2014-07-17.

External links

masshockey.com Hall of Fame page
Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by William Harrison John Kelley	Spencer Penrose Award 1956–57 1959–60	Succeeded by Harry Cleverly Murray Armstrong

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[2] Many sources give 1922 as a year of birth, but 1920 is backed by the Society for International Hockey Research and the U.S. Public Records Index

[3] ttp://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=210684565

[Army-4] "2011-12 Army Hockey Media Guide" (PDF). Go Army Sports. Retrieved 2014-07-17.

Army Black Knights men's ice hockey
Formerly the Army Cadets
Playing venues	Smith Rink (1930–1985) Tate Rink (1985–Present)
Head coaches	Edward Leonard King (1903–1904) Robert Foy (1904–1907) George Russell (1907–1910) LeRoy Bartlett (1910–1912) Philip Gordon (1912–1914) Frank Purdon (1914–1917) Joseph Viner (1917–1918) Philip Day (1918–1920) Talbot Hunter (1920–1923) Ray Marchand (1923–1943) John Hines (1943–1944) Robert Lutz (1944–1945) Len Patten (1945–1950) Jack Riley (1950–1986) Rob Riley (1986–2004) Brian Riley (2004–present)
Seasons	1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Conference affiliations	ECAC Hockey (1961–1973, 1980–1991) ECAC 2 (1973–1980) College Hockey America (1999–2000) MAAC (2000–2003) Atlantic Hockey (2003–Present)
Rivalries	Air Force Falcons RMC Paladins
All-time leaders	Dave Rost (330 Points) George Clark (153 Goals) Tom Garver (75 Wins)
United States Military Academy West Point, NY

John P. Riley Jr.

Biography

Head coaching record

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References

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