Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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 composed of players from three different clubs.

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

quads

fh|France

*R. P. Aublin
*David Baidet
*Raoul Benoist
*André Bonnal
*Louis Gautier
*Daniel Maurice Girard
*Charles Pattin
*Louis Poupon
*Frédéric Roux
*René Salarnier (GK)
*Louis Saulnier

fh|Germany|empire

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

fh|Great Britain

fh|England

*Louis Baillon
*Harry Freeman
*Eric Green
*Gerald Logan
*Alan Noble
*Edgar Page
*Reggie Pridmore
*Percy Rees
*John Yate Robinson
*Stanley Shoveller
*Harvey Wood (GK)

fh|Ireland|1783

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

fh|Scotland

*Alexander Burt (GK)
*John Burt
*Alastair Denniston
*Charles Foulkes
*Hew Fraser
*James Harper-Orr
*Ivan Laing
*Hugh Neilson
*William Orchardson
*Norman Stevenson
*Hugh Walker

fh|Wales

*Frederick Connah
*Llewellyn Evans
*Arthur Law
*Richard Lyne
*Wilfred Pallot
*Frederick Phillips
*Edward Richards
*Charles Shephard
*Bertrand Turnbull (GK)
*Philip Turnbull
*James Williams

Results

First round

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emifinals

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

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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 fifth and sixth place playoff match, though the official report makes no mention of that.

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".Official Report, p. 203]

ources

*cite book|last=Cook |first=Theodore Andrea |year=1908 |title=The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report |publisher=British Olympic Association |location=London
*cite web|last=De Wael |first=Herman |year=2002 |url=http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/hoc1908.html |title=Hockey 1908 |work=Herman's Full Olympians |accessdaymonth=3 May |accessyear=2006

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