Born in Belmont, Massachusetts, Bruce Mather played in prep school at Belmont Hill School, and then attended Dartmouth. He played for the Indians from 1943-47, centering a famous line with Olympic teammates Bruce Cunliffe and Ralph Warburton. Their Dartmouth teams won 46 consecutive games, and were ranked #1 in the country in 1946 and 1947, prior to the advent of NCAA hockey championships. At the 1948 Winter Olympics, he played in all eight US games, scoring 13 goals and 18 points, including five goals against Austria. After the Olympics, he played for three years with the Boston Olympics of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League, and then played in 1954-55 with the Worcester Warriors of the Eastern Hockey League. Mather signed with the Boston Bruins in 1950, but never played a game in the NHL. He later became a youth hockey coach. Mather was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998.
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