Polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Men's polo; at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	Hurlingham Polo Grounds
Dates	June 18 ; June 21
Competitors	12 from 1 nation
Medalists

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a polo tournament was contested. It was the second time the sport had been featured at the Olympics, with 1900 being its first appearance.

The venue was the Hurlingham Polo Grounds in London. The Hurlingham Club presented a Challenge Cup to the winner of the tournament, which consisted of three teams. All three teams represented the British Olympic Association, with two from England and one from Ireland. The two English teams played each first, with the winner playing against the Irish team. Roehampton won both games, taking the gold medal, while the other two teams did not face each other to break the tie for second place.

Medal table

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	1	2	0	3

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain (GBR) Roehampton Charles Darley Miller George Arthur Miller Patteson Womersley Nickalls Herbert Haydon Wilson	Great Britain (GBR) Hurlingham Walter Buckmaster Frederick Freake Walter Jones John Wodehouse Great Britain (GBR) Ireland John Hardress Lloyd John Paul McCann Percy O'Reilly Auston Rotherham	None awarded

Team rosters

Hurlingham

Ireland

Roehampton

Results

Game 1

Hurlingham scored first, with a goal in the second period by Jones. It would be the only goal scored by the team, however, as Roehampton answered with two goals in the third and added another in the fifth.


June 18	GBR Roehampton	3	-	1	GBR Hurlingham	Hurlingham Grounds

Game 2

The second game was decidedly more lopsided than the first, with Roehampton scoring twice in the first period and Miller adding three more himself in the second. Ireland scored its only goal shortly before the end of the match, when the team was already down 8-0.


June 21	GBR Roehampton	8	-	1	GBR Ireland	Hurlingham Grounds

Sources

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman (2001). "Polo 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 6 May 2006.

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