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Justin McCarthy (ice hockey)

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Olympic medal record
Men's Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1924 Chamonix Team Competition
1923 photograph in the Boston Globe of McCarthy

Justin Jeremiah "Jerry" McCarthy (January 25, 1899 – April 8, 1976) was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics.

He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1921, (later, the University of Massachusetts), where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.[1] He played for the Boston Athletic Association ice hockey team and was captain of the B.A.A team that won the 1923 United States Amateur Hockey Association championship.[2]

Selected for the USA squad, McCarthy was the captain of the American ice hockey team, which won the silver medal. He died in Centerville, Massachusetts.

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  1. ^ PSK Alpha Chapter alumni records
  2. ^ "Watches Presented to B. A. A. Hockey Players". The Boston Globe. April 15, 1923.
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