Marvin Stalder

Marvin Frederick Stalder (born December 9, 1905 in Riverside , California , † September 2, 1982 in Kerrville , Texas ) was an American rower .

Marvin Stalder, 1.85 m tall, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , and was on the rowing team of the University Sports Team, Golden Bears . At the 1928 Olympic Games , the eighth of the Golden Bears represented the United States in the line-up of Marvin Stalder, John Brinck , Francis Frederick , William Thompson , William Dally , James Workman , Hubert Caldwell , Peter Donlon and helmsman Donald Blessing . The US rowers won all five races, in the final they defeated the British eighth. In doing so, they established a tradition of the rowing team of the Golden Bears , which also placed eighth in the Olympic final in 1932 and 1948 .

Stalder went to the United States Army after graduating, and in 1947, after the armed forces split up, joined the newly formed United States Air Force . When he retired, he was a Colonel in the Air Force.

Web links

Marvin Stalder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the IX. 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and the II Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-89784-411-7 . Pp. 335-340

personal data
SURNAME	Stalder, Marvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stalder, Marvin Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riverside , California
DATE OF DEATH	2nd September 1982
Place of death	Kerrville , Texas