1936 Berlin Summer Games
4,066 Athletes, 49 Countries, 129 Events
The 32 athletes in Berlin from the Ivy League had the opportunity
to watch track great Jesse Owens win four gold
medals (long jump, 100-meters, 200-meters, and 4x100-meter relay).
The feeling of the Olympic spirit had to be savored, for it would
be another 12 years before another Games took place due to World
War II.
Ivy Leaguers returned in force for the 1936 men's field hockey
tournament. The United States team had five athletes from Princeton
and three from Penn. All they could muster, however, was a
seventh-place finish. Harvard rowers forming the United States four
suffered a similar fate, as they were unable to bring home a
medal.
Three from the Ancient Eight did come home with a medal; two
were swimmers. Al Van de Weghe (Princeton '40) won
silver in the 100-meter backstroke. John Macionis
(Yale '38) was part of the second place United States 4x200-meter
freestyle relay team.
Fritz Pollard, Jr. (Brown '37) won the bronze
medal in the 110-meter hurdles while attending the University of
North Dakota, where he played football and boxed in addition to
running track. He attended Brown early in his undergraduate career.
Pollard, son of legendary Brown footballer Fritz Pollard,
Sr., later became director of the U.S. State Department's
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity.
In the Olympic architecture competition conceived by IOC
President French baron Pierre de Coubertin for the
1912 Stockholm Games John Russel Pope won a silver
medal for his design of Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
| Name |
School |
Sport |
| Fritz Pollard, Jr. |
Brown University |
Men's Athletics |
| Hugh Alessandroni |
Columbia University |
Men's Fencing |
| Norman Armitage |
Columbia University |
Men's Fencing |
| Jose C. Martinez-Zorilla |
Cornell University |
Men's Fencing |
| Walter 'Duke' Wood |
Cornell University |
Men's Athletics |
| Malcolm W. Metcalf |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Athletics |
| John P. Austin |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Edward H. Bennett, Jr. |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Robert B. Cutler |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| Roger W. Cutler, Jr. |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| William C. Haskins |
Harvard University |
Men's Rowing |
| John G. Hurd |
Harvard University |
Men's Fencing |
| Charles G. Hutter, Jr. |
Harvard University |
Men's Swimming |
| William E. Kendall |
Harvard University |
Men's Swimming |
| George L. Dahm, Jr. |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| James C. Gentle |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Wilson T. Hobson, Jr. |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Field Hockey |
| George G. Loveless |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Rowing |
| Charles M. Sheaffer, Jr. |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Gene G. Venzke |
University of Pennsylvania |
Men's Athletics |
| Horace C. Disston |
Princeton University |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Samuel E. Ewing |
Princeton University |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Paul L. Fentress |
Princeton University |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Ellwood W. Godfrey |
Princeton University |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Tracy Jaeckel |
Princeton University |
Men's Fencing |
| David McMullin, III |
Princeton University |
Men's Field Hockey |
| Al Van de Weghe |
Princeton University |
Men's Swimming |
| John Huffman |
Yale University |
Men's Fencing |
| John Macionis |
Yale University |
Men's Swimming |
| John Potter |
Yale University |
Men's Fencing |
| Frank Righeimer |
Yale University |
Men's Fencing |
| Alexis Thompson |
Yale University |
Women's Field Hockey |