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1932 Lake Placid Winter Games
307 Athletes, 17 Countries, 14 Events

This northern New York town beat Montreal and seven other U.S. cities to host the 1932 Winter Games. With the stock market crash that presumably caused the Great Depression taking place three years prior, the organizing committee faced many fundraising obstacles. The Games went on nonetheless, but with only 17 nations and 252 athletes, a drop from the 25 countries that brought competitors to the 1928 St. Moritz Games. Lake Placid would also be the site of the Winter Olympiad in 1980.

Ten Ivy Leaguers on the silver medalwinning U.S. men's ice hockey team for the first Lake Placid Games staged their own minimiracle, they were not pummeled by Canada. Captained by John P. Chase (Harvard, 1928), the team made it to the finals versus the Canadians, where they tied 22 in the first game only to lose 21 in the second. Chase would go on to coach at Harvard for several years. His Ivy League teammates on that squad included Douglas N. Everett (Dartmouth, 1926), John B. Garrison (Harvard, 1931), and Winthrop H. 'Ding' Palmer (Yale, 1930), all three of whom, as well as Chase, are enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

The hockey team, however, was not the only pertinent Ivy League story from the 1932 Games. The League saw some success in bobsledding, with Robert Minton (Dartmouth, 1926) teaming with John Heaton to win the bronze in the twoman bobsled for the United States. Edward Eagan (Yale, 1921) was a lightweight boxer for the United States at the 1920 (Antwerp) and 1924 (Paris) Summer Games. He won the gold medal in 1920. Twelve years later, Eagan was part of the fourman bobsled team that won the gold medal at the 1932 Lake Placid Games, making him the only man to win a gold medal in summer and winter competition.

On the figure skating front, Crimson Sherwin C. Badger (Harvard 1923) and James L. Madden (Harvard 1933) skated for the U.S. with Badger winning silver for the pairs competition with his partner, Beatrix Loughran. Maribel Vinson (Harvard, 1933), like Badger, returned to the Olympics and won a medal. She was awarded the bronze for women's figure skating singles. The figure skating and ice hockey competitions were in an indoorrink for the first time in Winter Olympic history.

Finally, Dartmouth alum John A. Shea '34, would prove to be the biggest story out of Lake Placid. A Lake Placid native, Shea won gold medals in the 500meter and 1500meter speedskating events. He also read the Olympic oath at the opening ceremonies. Shea had the chance to compete in the 1936 GarmischPartenkirchen Games, however he declined in protest of Adolf Hitler's antiSemitic policies. Despite that, Shea's name still lingered. His son Jim competed in skiing events at the 1964 Innsbruck Games and his grandson Jim, Jr. won gold in dramatic fashion in the skeleton race at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, making them the only threegeneration Olympic family.

The U.S. won the medal tally at Lake Placid, 12 to Norway's 10.