Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time.

Six teams entered from three states. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was represented by a team from each of the four home nations: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Germany sent a championship club team, while France sent a team comprised of players from three different clubs.

England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver, and Scotland and Wales the bronze medals.

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[edit] Medal table

Position Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain and Ireland 1 1 2 4
— France France 0 0 0 0
Germany Germany 0 0 0 0

[edit] Team rosters

[edit] France

  • R. P. Aublin
  • D. Baidet
  • R. Benoit
  • André Bonnal
  • L. Gautier
  • D. M. Girard
  • C. Pattin
  • L. Poupon
  • F. Roux
  • René Salarnier (goalkeeper)
  • L. Saulnier

[edit] Germany

  • Alfons Brehm
  • Elard Dauelsberg
  • Franz Diederichsen
  • Carl Ebert (goalkeeper)
  • Jules Fehr
  • Mauricio Galvao
  • Raulino Galvao
  • Fritz Möding
  • Friedrich Rahe
  • Albert Studemann
  • Friedrich Uhl

[edit] Great Britain and Ireland

[edit] England

[edit] Ireland

  • Edward Allman-Smith
  • Henry Brown
  • Walter Campbell
  • William Graham
  • Richard Gregg
  • Edward Holmes (goalkeeper)
  • Robert Kennedy
  • Henry Murphy
  • Walter Peterson
  • Charles Power
  • Frank Robinson

[edit] Scotland

  • Alexander Burt (goalkeeper)
  • John Burt
  • Andrew Dennistoun
  • Charles Foulkes
  • Hew Fraser
  • James Harper-Orr
  • Ivan Laing
  • Hugh Neilson
  • William Orchardson
  • Norman Stevenson
  • Hugh Walker

[edit] Wales

  • Frederick Connah
  • Llewellyn Evans
  • Arthur Law
  • Richard Lyne
  • Wilfred Pallott
  • Frederick Phillips
  • Edward Richards
  • Charles Shephard
  • Bertrand Turnbull (goalkeeper)
  • Philip Turnbull
  • James Williams

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

October 29 GBR Scotland 4 - 0 Germany White City
Burt 2, Laing, Walker (3 - 0)
October 29 GBR England 10 - 1 France White City
Green, Logan 2, Pridmore 3,
Rees, Shoveller 3		 (4 - 0) Poupon

[edit] Semifinals

There were no playoffs for third place, so the losers of the semifinals received bronze medals.

October 29 GBR Ireland 3 - 1 GBR Wales White City
Gregg, Power, Robinson (2 - 1) Williams
October 29 GBR Scotland 1 - 6 GBR England White City
Walker (0 - 2) Logan, Pridmore 3, Shoveller 2

[edit] Extra match

A match between the two Continental teams took place between the semifinals and the final. Both France and Germany had lost in the first round, and thus the extra match could be considered to be a 5th/6th place playoff match, though the Official Report makes no mention of that.

October 30 Germany 1 - 0 France White City
Möding (1 - 0)

[edit] Final

The Official Report ceases its description of the game after England took the lead 5-1, saying only that "by this time England had taken control of the game and won with eight goals to one[1]."

October 31 GBR England 8 - 1 GBR Ireland White City (att. 6,000)
Logan 3, Pridmore 2, ??? 3 (3 - 0) Robinson

[edit] Sources

  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association. 
  • De Wael, Herman (2002). Hockey 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on May 3, 2007.


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Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
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See also: List of Olympic medalists in field hockey
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