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

United States

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 amateur ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 player who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics

1936 Winter Olympics

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 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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, Germany

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Frank Spain was born on an ancestral plantation in Brooks County

Brooks County, Georgia

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, Georgia

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 but later moved to Waban, Massachusetts

Waban, Massachusetts

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 where he learned to play hockey on frozen ponds. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

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 prep school and then Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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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 Boston Olympics

Boston Olympics

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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 Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

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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 United States Hockey Hall of Fame

United States Hockey Hall of Fame

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 in Eveleth, Minnesota

Eveleth, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,865 people, 1,717 households, and 971 families residing in the city. The population density was 611.0 people per square mile . There were 1,965 housing units at an average density of 310.6 per square mile...

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He was born in Quitman, Georgia

Quitman, Georgia

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 and died in Fairport, New York

Fairport, New York

Fairport is a village located in the town of Perinton which is part of Monroe County, New York. Fairport is a suburb east of Rochester. It is also known as the "Crown Jewel of the Erie Canal"...

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External links

• Frank Spain Fanbase page
• Frank Spain Biography and Statistics
• profile
• The Ivy League's Complete History of the Olympic Games
• Dartmouth College Hockey: Northern Ice, by Jack DeGrange and David Shribman. (Arcadia Publishing, 2005).