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1904 St. Louis Summer Games
687 Athletes, 13 Countries, 96 Events

The United States won 236 medals at the 1904 Summer Games, the most for a single country in Olympic history. Germany was the next closest country in 1904 with 13 medals. Why such dominance? The Games were held at the same time as the World's Fair, just as they were for the 1900 Paris Games. Again, they were held over a long period of time four and a half months. In fact, IOC President Barron Pierre de Coubertin did not even bother to attend and many athletes around the globe followed suit.

Nineteen Ivy athletes made the trip to St. Louis, returning with 19 medals, while participating in a diverse group of events.

H. Chandler Egan (Harvard '05) won the individual golfing competition in the last Olympics that the event would be contested. His cousin, Walter Egan (Harvard) joined him on the gold medal Western Golf Association team that beat two other American squads to win the team event.

Harvard teammates Beals Coleman Wright '03 and Edgar W. Leonard '03 joined forces on the St. Louis tennis courts. In the singles competition, Wright won the gold medal while Leonard won bronze. Together, they dominated the doubles competition en route to a gold medal. Wright was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1956 after winning three grand slam titles. He also made several Davis Cup appearances.

Charles Fitzhugh Townsend (Columbia '04) became the Ancient Eight's first Olympic fencer and fencing medallist. He helped the US foil team to a silver medal.

On the track and field front, Penn footballer T. Truxtun Hare '01 won two bronze medals in St. Louis,with one coming in the first running of the decathlon, known then as the "AllAround Championship." Hare beat out Ellery Clark (Harvard '96), who was making a comeback attempt after winning two gold medals at the 1896 Athens Games.

Another notable Ivy track and field Olympian at St. Louis was Nathaniel J. Cartmell (Penn '08) who won silver medals in both the 100meter and 200meter dash.