BROOKLINE, Mass. -- John Jack Kirrane Jr., the captain of the U.S. hockey team that won the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics, has died. He was 88.The Brookline, Massachusetts, native died Sunday at a Quincy care facility from complications of Alzheimers disease, said his son, John P. Kirrane.Kirrane first played for the Olympic hockey team in 1948 at age 17. At the 1960 Squaw Valley Games, the 31-year-old defenseman led a squad of mostly college players to upsets of Canada and the Soviet Union before beating Czechoslovakia for the gold.His son was 5 years old at the time but clearly remembers the excitement as the whole family yelled and screamed around a small black-and-white television to watch the game.The gold medal, placed in a display case, was always somewhere around the house when he was growing up, but the younger Kirrane said his father was forever humble about the achievement.He didnt say much about it unless you asked him, his son said. He wasnt the type of guy to blow his own horn. He was modest about it.The 1960 team never received the measure of fame enjoyed by the 1980 Miracle on Ice gold-medal team, but Kirrane didnt mind.He knew it was a different time, his son said. Back then, unless you were from Boston or Michigan or Minnesota, hockey really wasnt a big deal.Kirrane served in the Army during the Korean War, although he never saw combat, his son said. He was also a firefighter in Brookline for nearly four decades.The older Kirrane is a member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame, while the skating rink in Brookline is named after him.He is survived by three children, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His wife died in 2010.A funeral Mass is to be celebrated Thursday at St. Lawrence Church in Chestnut Hill. Nick Wittgren Jersey .C. United of Major League Soccer. United chose the defender in the second round of the 2013 MLS re-entry draft. Cameron Maybin Jersey .S. hockey team after paying his dues as an NHL general manager for more than three decades and giving up a lot of his free time to help USA Hockey. http://www.marlinsteamproshop.com/Marlins-Miguel-Rojas-Kids-Jersey/ . -- On the field, it was business as usual for Jameis Winston and No. Starlin Castro Jersey . Clarkson had been dealing with an elbow injury in early January and will be out of action for at least one week. He has three goals and five assists through 36 games with the Leafs this season. Kyle Barraclough Jersey .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. Matt Phillips opened the scoring in the fourth minute and West Bromwich Albion never looked back en route to a 4-0 rout of Burnley on Monday night at The Hawthorns.West Brom (4-4-4) looked simply unstoppable as they roared out of the traps and scored within five minutes. Burnley looked shell-shocked and conceded a second when West Brom broke following a corner through James Morrison, who fired in a low shot in from the edge of the area.The hosts had a third before the interval, when Phillips twisted and turned his way into the box before picking out Darren Fletcher at the back postt, leaving the Scotland international with the simplest of finishes.ddddddddddddBurnley (4-2-6) sent on Ashley Barnes at the break in search of goals, but found themselves picking the ball out of the net once again as Salomon Rondon fired in via a couple of deflections.Tony Pulis will be delighted that his side didnt ease off after such a blistering start, while Sean Dyche will want the Clarets to forget this anomaly and move on sooner rather than later. ' ' '