The names of Jack McCartan, Billy Christian and Billy Cleary might not resonate like those of Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and Mark Johnson, but the heroes of the 1960 American squad crafted a result at Squaw Valley as miraculous as the one that would follow 20 years later. Cobbled together from a small group of college grads overlooked by the NHL by virtue of their American birth, the lightly regarded squad pulled off stunning upsets of the Canadians, Russians and Czechs to claim gold.
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