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Oscar Brockmeyer Personal information Full name Oscar Bernhard Brockmeyer Date of birth November 13, 1883 Place of birth St. Louis, United States Playing position Defender Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1904 Christian Brothers College 1905 University of Missouri National team 1904 U.S. Soccer Team * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Olympic medal record Men's Football Silver 1904 St. Louis Team competition Oscar Bernard Brockmeyer (November 13, 1883 – January 10, 1954) was an American amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was the son of Dora (Luebbering) and Bernard Henry Brockmeyer, His Grandparents moved from Glane, Germany to St. Louis, Missouri. He had 4 brothers and 3 sisters.
In 1904 he was a member of the Christian Brothers College team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as a defender. Oscar graduated in 1904 at C.B.C and went to Missouri University at Columbia, he had a scholarship there, and played football for the Varsity in 1905.
When he came home, he went to work at the City Hall of St. Louis as a draftsman.
Personal life
He married Florence Louise Hoevel (1883 - 1952) and they had the following children:
- Oscar Bernard Brockmeyer, jr. (1919 - 1984),
- Charles E. Brockmeyer (1922 - 1978).
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Categories:- 1883 births
- 1954 deaths
- American soccer players
- Olympic soccer players of the United States
- Footballers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Soccer players from Missouri
- Olympic medalists in football
- American Olympic medalist stubs
- American soccer defender stubs
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