Walter A. Brown

The original owner of the Boston Celtics also played a major role in the development of Hockey in the United States. Brown himself coached the amateur Boston Olympics to five titles and a World Championship and Olympic Bronze. He would later take over the financially struggling Boston Bruins as their president. He would also become the Vice President of the IIHF and the chairman of the U.S. Hockey squad that won at Squaw Valley. Hockey in the United States was a major beneficiary of the work of Walter A. Brown.