John P. Riley, Jr.

Jack Riley
Born	(1920-06-15)June 15, 1920 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 3, 2016(2016-02-03) (aged 95) Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.
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

Medal record
Men's Ice hockey
Competitor for the USA
World Championships
	1949 Sweden
Olympics
	1960 Squaw Valley	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. He played for the U.S. Olympic team at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics. Biography Riley was born in Boston in 1920 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. College Head Coaching record 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 References External links masshockey.com Hall of Fame page Biographical information and career statistics from