Polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a polo tournament was contested. It was the second time the sport had been featured at the Olympics, with 1900 being its first appearance.

The venue was the Hurlingham Polo Grounds in London. The Hurlingham Club presented a Challenge Cup to the winner of the tournament, which consisted of three teams. All three teams represented the British Olympic Association, with two from England and one from Ireland. The two English teams played each first, with the winner playing against the Irish team. Roehampton won both games, taking the gold medal, while the other two teams did not face each other to break the tie for second place.

1 Medal table
2 Medal summary
3 Team rosters
4 Results
- 4.1 Game 1
- 4.2 Game 2
5 Sources

[edit] Medal table

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	1	2	0	3

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Roehampton Great Britain	Hurlingham Club Great Britain Ireland Great Britain	None

[edit] Team rosters

[edit] Hurlingham

Walter Buckmaster
Frederick Freake
Walter Jones
John Wodehouse

[edit] Ireland

John Hardress Lloyd
John McKann
Percy O'Reilly
Auston Rotherham

[edit] Roehampton

Charles Darley Miller
George Arthur Miller
Patteson Nickalls
Herbert Haydon Wilson

[edit] Results

[edit] Game 1

Hurlingham scored first, with a goal in the second period by Jones. It would be the only goal scored by the team, however, as Roehampton answered with two goals in the third and added another in the fifth.


June 18	GBR Roehampton	3	-	1	GBR Hurlingham	Hurlingham Grounds

[edit] Game 2

The second game was decidedly more lopsided than the first, with Roehampton scoring twice in the first period and Miller adding three more himself in the second. Ireland scored its only goal shortly before the end of the match, when the team was already down 8-0.


June 21	GBR Roehampton	8	-	1	GBR Ireland	Hurlingham Grounds

[edit] Sources

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman (2001). Polo 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 6 May 2006.

Events at the 1908 Summer Olympics (London)
Archery • Athletics • Boxing • Cycling • Diving • Fencing • Figure skating • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Jeu de paume • Lacrosse • Polo • Rackets • Rowing • Rugby • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis • Tug of war • Water motorsports • Water polo • Wrestling

Polo at the Summer Olympics
1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928−1932 • 1936 See also: List of Olympic medalists in polo