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The 1936 Olympics gold medal-winning Indian team.
The team: Dhyan Chand (captain and standing second from the left), Richard J. Allen (goalkeeper), Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara, Lionel C Emmett, Paul Peter Fernandes, Joseph Galibardy, E John Goodsir-Cullen, Mohammed Hussain, Syed Mohammed Jaffar, Ahsan Mohammed Khan, Ahmed Sher Khan, Mirza Nasir-ud-din Masud, Cyril J Mitchie, Babu N Nimal, Joseph Philips, Shabban Shahab-ud-din, Gurcharan Singh, Roop Singh, Carlyle C Tapsell.
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August 29, 2003
Days of Genius
Dhyan Chand believed in being the best. Ending up second-best was as good as not finishing. A great sportsman, he never lost his temper on the field. But he certainly had the killer instinct.
'Hockey is a game of eleven players, not of one individual,' he always said.
His team-mates were great players in their own right.
His brother Roop Singh, who has a street in Berlin named after him; Richard Allen, who had the unique record of not conceding a single goal at the 1928 Olympics and also played in 1932 and 1936 with Dhyan Chand; Kanwar Digvijay Singh, also known as 'Babu.' Legends all!
About such a team it was written: 'Perfection is perilious for it tempts the Gods!'
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