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1976 Innsbruck Winter Games
1261 Athletes, 37 Countries, 37 Events

Denver, Colorado, was initially awarded the 1976 Winter Olympics. But after cost overruns and anticipated overdevelopment, citizens of Colorado passed a state constitutional amendment prohibiting the further use of state funds for the Games. Innsbruck, Austria, having hosted the Olympics only 12 years prior to the 1976 Games, willingly saved the day. Two cauldrons ignited with flames at the opening ceremonies, signifying both games that Innsbruck had hosted.

Two Dartmouth skiers went to the first Innsbruck Games in 1964 (James W. Page '63 and Richard W. Taylor '59). Three were at the 1976 Innsbruck Games: Timothy Caldwell '76, Walter A. Malmquist, II'78, and Douglas J. Peterson '75. Caldwell skied in four crosscountry events, doing better than his performance four years ago in Sapporo. He, along with Dartmouth and Olympic teammate Peterson, helped the US team finish sixth in the 4x10kilometer relay. Malmquist placed 29th in the Nordic Combined race. All three would return to the US team for the 1980 Lake Placid Games.

The U.S. Men's Ice Hockey finished in fifth place at Innsbruck, as they did in the first Innsbruck Games in 1964. Harvard had two representatives on the squad: Dan Bolduc '76 and Theodore B. Thorndike '75. The team finished 23, scoring 15 goals but allowing 21. Four years later, at the 1980 Lake Placid Games, would be the greatest moment in American hockey, and perhaps all American sports, the 'Miracle on Ice.' William 'Buzz' Schneider was a member of both the 1976 and 1980 teams.

The 1976 Games marked a sad end to the Harvard figure skating tradition. It was the first time in Winter Olympics history that a future, current, or former Harvard student was not participating in any figure skating event. Crimson figure skaters would have a brief comeback when Paul Stanton Wylie (Harvard, 1991) competed in the 1988 Calgary Games, but none have been in the Olympics since.