Francis Allen "Red" Synott (December 28, 1890 – October 12, 1945) was a Canadian-born 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 ...

star of the early 1920s, playing on the first two United States hockey teams, and winning silver medals with them in

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and

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

. Besides the Olympics, he won a world championship with the U.S. in 1920. Synott also played for Boston A.A. for a brief period (1919–1920).

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* * 1890 births 1945 deaths American ice hockey officials American men's ice hockey players American sportspeople of Canadian descent Boston Athletic Association ice hockey players Ice hockey people from New Brunswick Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey Sportspeople from Miramichi, New Brunswick 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub