Francis Jones Spain (February 17, 1909 – June 23, 1977) was an American amateur

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player who competed in the

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. Frank Spain was born on an ancestral plantation in Brooks County,

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, but later moved to

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, where he learned to play hockey on frozen ponds. He attended

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prep school and then

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, where he majored in philosophy and played baseball and ice hockey as a member of the class of 1934. He left Dartmouth to play for the

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, where he was the team captain for the 1933–1934 season. After his amateur ice-hockey career, he served as a naval officer and toured Europe. Following his marriage in 1941, he settled in

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, where he began a business and a family. In 1936 he was a member and captain of the United States ice hockey team, which won the bronze medal. The medal currently resides at the

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. He was born in

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, and died in

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References

* Dartmouth College Hockey: Northern Ice, by Jack DeGrange and David Shribman. (Arcadia Publishing, 2005).

External links

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The Ivy League's Complete History of the Olympic Games
1909 births 1977 deaths American men's ice hockey centers Boston Olympics players Ice hockey people from Georgia (U.S. state) Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in ice hockey People from Quitman, Georgia {{US-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub