Robert Barry Cleary (April 21, 1936 – September 16, 2015) was an American

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player. Cleary was a member of the American

1960 Winter Olympics The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Valley ...

team that won the gold medal, teaming up as he did at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

with his brother

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. Bob was inducted into the

United States Hockey Hall of Fame The United States Hockey Hall of Fame was established in 1973 with the goal of preserving the history of ice hockey in the United States while recognizing the extraordinary contributions of select players, coaches, administrators, officials an ...

in 1981. While at Harvard, the Cleary brothers played

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together for the now defunct Sagamore Clouters of the

Cape Cod Baseball League The Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL or Cape League) is a collegiate summer baseball wooden bat league located on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. One of the nation's premier collegiate summer leagues, the league boasts over 1,000 forme ...

Awards and honors

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United States Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1936 births 2015 deaths American men's ice hockey centers Bourne Braves players Cape Cod Baseball League players (pre-modern era) Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey players Ice hockey players from Massachusetts Ice hockey players at the 1960 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in ice hockey United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductees AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-icehockey-center-stub