1908 Summer Olympics / Hockey

Olympic hockey tournament 1908
Men's
Number of nations	6th
Olympic champion	Great Britain
venue	London
Stadion	White City Stadium
opening	October 29, 1908
Endgame	October 31, 1908
1920 →

At the IV Olympic Games in London in 1908 , a competition in hockey (men) was held. It was held at White City Stadium from October 29th to 31st .

Four British teams, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales took part in the tournament, which in the end also took the four first places, as well as France and Germany. The foreign teams proved to have no chance. In the final, England clearly prevailed against Ireland. There was no match for 3rd place, so Scotland and Wales shared the bronze medal.

The day before the final there was an additional game between the losing teams from mainland Europe. Both France and Germany had lost in the preliminary round, so the additional game is often viewed as a game for fifth place. In the official IOC report it is referred to as a friendly game and evaluated in detail.

Medal ranks

Men

The German team came from Uhlenhorster HC (Hamburg), only Elard Dauelsberg came from Eilbeker HC (Hamburg). The French players came from Club Athletique International, Racing Club de France and the Stade Français .

space	country	team
1	GBR	England Louis Baillon , Harry Freeman , Eric Green , Gerald Logan , Alan Noble , Edgar Page , Reginald Pridmore , Percy Rees , John Robinson , Stanley Shoveller , Harvey Wood (goalkeeper)
2	GBR	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
3	GBR	Scotland Alexander Burt , John Burt (goalkeeper) , Andrew Dennistoun , Charles Foulkes , Hew Fraser , John Harper-Orr , Ivan Laing , Hugh Neilson , William Orchardson , Norman Stevenson , Hugh Walker
	GBR	Wales Frederick Connah , Llewellyn Evans , Arthur Law , Richard Lyne , Wilfred Pallott , Frederick Phillips , Edward Richards , Charles Shephard , Bertrand Turnbull , Philip Turnbull (goalkeeper) , James Williams
5	GER	Uhlenhorster HC Alfons Brehm (captain) , Elard Dauelsberg , Franz Diederichsen , Carl Ebert (goalkeeper) , Jules Fehr , Mauricio Galvao , Raulino Galvao , Fritz Möding , Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe , Albert Stüdemann , Friedrich Uhl
5	FRA	RP Aublin , David Baidet , Raoul Benhoist , André Bonnal , Louis Gautier , Daniel Girard , Charles Pattin , Louis Poupon , Frédéric Roux , René Salarnier (goalkeeper) , Louis Saulnier

The German team

Results

Opening game Scotland - Germany

Scotland and Germany played the opening game and thus the first Olympic hockey game in history. The official report says: "The first game started on the grass pitch in the center of the White City Stadium on October 29th at half past two in beautiful weather."

Preliminary round
October 29th	Scotland - Germany	4-0
	England - France	10: 1
Semifinals
October 29th	Ireland - Wales	3: 1
	England - Scotland	6: 1
Feature game
30th of October	Germany - France	1-0
final
October 31	England - Ireland	8: 1

literature

• Official IOC report 1908 (PDF file; 14.06 MB)
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Hockey at the 1908 London Summer Games at www.sports-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ FIH website: 1908 Mens Olympic Games. Retrieved March 31, 2013 . 
2. ^ IOC report, p. 204
3. ↑ Olympic Games → London 2008 on hockeyplatz.de. Retrieved March 31, 2013 . 
4. ^ IOC report, p. 197