1948 St. Moritz Winter Games
713 Athletes, 28 Countries, 24 Events
The fifth Winter Olympics were held 12 years after the fourth due
to World War II. With their countries still fighting, Germany and
Japan were not permitted to compete in the 1948 St. Moritz Games.
Still, 15 Ivy Leaguers made the trip to what was also the site of
the 1928 Games, 14 as members of the two U.S. Men's Ice Hockey
teams. Why two teams? Both the Amateur Athletic Union and Amateur
Hockey Association wanted their teams to represent the United
States. The dispute was never truly settled, but the Amateur Hockey
Association went on to be the team in competition. Members of the
Amateur Athletic Union team included: Crawford M.
Campbell (Dartmouth ,1946), George S.
Pulliam (Dartmouth, 1945), Joseph A.
Riley (Dartmouth, 1949), C.R.P. Rodgers
(Princeton, 1942), James R. Sloane (Princeton,
1943), and George Donahue (Yale).
The members of the other team, which eventually finished fourth,
included: Bruce F. Cunliffe (Dartmouth, 1947),
Goodwin W. Harding (Harvard, 1943), Bruce
E. Mather (Dartmouth, 1947), Fred G.
Pearson (Yale), Stanton B. Priddy
(Dartmouth, 1943), John P. 'Jack' Riley, Jr.
(Dartmouth, 1944), H.T. VanIngen, Jr. (Dartmouth),
and Ralph A. Warburton (Dartmouth, 1947). Mather
led the team in scoring, netting five goals against Austria in a
9-1 victory. Riley would go on to coach the gold medal-winning team
at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games.
Two from Hanover kept up the Dartmouth skiing tradition at the
1948 Winter Games: Warren H. Chivers (Dartmouth,
1938) and Colin C. Stewart, IV (Dartmouth,
1948).
Dick Button (Harvard, 1952) rounded out the Ivy
roster for the 1948 Games. Only a freshman at Harvard, Button still
won the gold medal for the United States in the Men's Individual
figure skating Event. He would repeat his performance four years
later with another gold medal at Oslo and eventually move into a
career as a figure skating television commentator, among other
things, which continues today.
| Name |
School |
Sport |
| Crawford M. Campbell |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Bruce F. Cunliffe |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Bruce E. Mather |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Stanton B. Priddy |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| George S. Pulliam |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| John P. Riley, Jr. |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Joseph A. Riley |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Colin C. Stewart, IV |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Alpine Skiing |
| Ralph A. Warburton |
Dartmouth College |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Richard Button |
Harvard University |
Men's Figure Skating |
| Goodwin W. Harding |
Harvard University |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| C.R.P. Rodgers |
Princeton University |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| James R. Sloane |
Princeton University |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| George Donahue |
Yale University |
Men's Ice Hockey |
| Alexis Thompson |
Yale University |
Women's Bobsled |