sport.wikisort.org - AthleteWallace "Wally" Perry Wolf Jr. (October 2, 1930 – March 12, 1997) was an American competition swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion. He competed in the 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960 Summer Olympics.
American swimmer and water polo player
This article is about the Olympic swimmer and water polo player. For the baseball player, see
Wally Wolf (baseball).
Wally Wolf
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Full name | Wallace Perry Wolf Jr. |
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Nickname(s) | "Wally" |
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National team | United States |
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Born | (1930-10-02)October 2, 1930 Los Angeles, California |
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Died | March 12, 1997(1997-03-12) (aged 66) Santa Ynez, California |
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Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
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Weight | 176 lb (80 kg) |
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Sport | Swimming |
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Strokes | Freestyle, water polo |
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Club | Lynwood Swim Club |
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College team | University of Southern California |
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Personal
Wolf was born in Los Angeles, California, and was Jewish.[5][6][7] He was the son of famous vaudeville music director Rube Wolf Sr. and Fanchonnette Sunny (Rutherford) Wolf.[5][8] He married Carolyn Wyatt and had three children - Wallace Scott, John, and Lori, and the family lived in Manhattan Beach, California.[9][8] He died in Santa Ynez, California.
Career
At Beverly Hills High School (class of 1947), Wolf won the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) 220y-freestyle championship three years in a row, 1945-47 (with times of 2:32.2, 2:23.7, and 2:19.1), the individual medley - 75 yards two years in a row, 1946-47 (with times of 45.7 and 44.4), and was the CIF record holder in 220y-freestyle and individual medley.[10][8][5]
As a 17-year-old representing the United States at the 1948 Olympics in London, Wolf won a gold medal as member of the U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay which set a world record of 8:46.[11] At the US Olympic trials of the 1948 4x200-meter freestyle relay, several swimmers who had already qualified in other events slowed down in their heats or swam fast in the prelims and scratched themselves for the final to allow more swimmers to qualify for the US Olympic Team.[12] He was the top qualifier in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay trials final with a time of 2:14 flat.[13]
Ultimately, coach Robert Kiphuth did hold a time trial shortly after the actual trials[14] with 11 of the swimmers. This time trial had Jimmy McLane as first overall with a time of 2:11.0, Bill Smith and Wally Wolf in 2:11.2, and Wally Ris in 2:12.4. This quartet was used for the Olympic final and won the gold medal. The next four-Eugene Rogers in 2:14.2, Edwin Gilbert in 2:15.4, Robert Gibe in 2:15.6, and William Dudley in 2:15.9, were used in the Olympic prelims.[15] The next three swimmers-Joe Verdeur who came in 2:16.3, Alan Ford in 2:16.4 and George Hoogerhyde in 2:17.4 were not used in any capacity in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
Four years later at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, Wolf once again was the top qualifier in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay at the US Olympic trials. Like the trials in 1948, several top swimmers-Ford Konno, Clarke Scholes, William Woolsey, Wayne Moore and Jimmy McLane swam under their potential in the trials and failed to qualify for the final who had otherwise qualified in other events.[16] Coach Matt Mann used four of the swimmers who actually qualified in the trials for the Olympic prelim. He swam a second heat leg setting a new Olympic record of 2:11.4.[11] For the final, Mann used Konno, Woolsey, Moore, and McLane who won the gold medal. Wolf helped the U.S. relay team to qualify for the final of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay, but, under the international swimming rule of the time, he was not awarded with a medal because he did not swim in the event final.
Wolf attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition and was a four-time All American. He graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in 1951, and later returned to USC Law School to earn a law degree in 1957.[17]
Wolf was a member of the U.S. men's team that finished fifth in the 1956 water polo tournament in Melbourne, Australia, playing in five matches.[11] Again, four years later at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, he finished seventh with the U.S. men's water polo team in the 1960 tournament.[11] He played all seven matches and scored five goals. He was named to the 1964 Olympics US water polo team, but did not accept the appointment.[11]
Honors
In 1976, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.[18][19] In 2008 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2009 he was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame.[5][20] In 2011 he was inducted into the Beverly Hills High Athletes Hall of Fame.[8] In 2014 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[11][21]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of Southern California people
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
- List of select Jewish swimmers
References
- Los Angeles Times 29 July 1951 Page B11
- New York Times 24 July 1950 Page 29
- New York Times 21 August 1949 Page S2
- Los Angeles Times 1 April 1951 Page B13
- "Wallace Wolf; Water Sports - 2008". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- George Eisen (February 10, 2014). "Jewish Olympic Medalists". Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative.
- "Beverly High Athletes Inducted into Hall of Fame", Beverly Hills Weekly, November 3, 2011.
- Ruth Ryon (June 27, 1999). "Hopes It's 'Gone in 60 Seconds'". Los Angeles Times.
- "ALL-TIME BOYS SWIMMING/DIVING TEAM CHAMPIONS," cifss.org.
- "Wallace "Wally" Wolf". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- New York Times 25 July 1948 Page S3
- Page 119 1948 US Olympic Book
- New York Times 28 July 1948 Page 29
- Page 128 1948 US Olympic Book
- Page 131 1952 US Olympic Book
- University of Southern California, About USC. "A Trojan Olympic Miscellany". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- "Wallace P Wolf (1976)". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Hall of Fame Inductees". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "USC 2009 Hall of Fame inductees". Orange County Register. October 11, 2008.
- "The Late Wally Wolf Among Eight Elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame", Beverly Hills Weekly, December 5, 2013.
External links
1948 USA Olympic swimming team |
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Women's Team | |
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1952 USA Olympic swimming team |
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Men's Team | | |
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Women's Team | |
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 Olympic champions in men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay |
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- 1908:
John Derbyshire, Paul Radmilovic, William Foster, Henry Taylor (GBR)
- 1912:
Cecil Healy, Malcolm Champion, Leslie Boardman, Harold Hardwick (ANZ)
- 1920:
Perry McGillivray, Pua Kealoha, Norman Ross, Duke Kahanamoku (USA)
- 1924:
Johnny Weissmuller, Wally O'Connor, Harry Glancy, Ralph Breyer (USA)
- 1928:
Johnny Weissmuller, Austin Clapp, Walter Laufer, George Kojac (USA)
- 1932:
Masanori Yusa, Yasuji Miyazaki, Takashi Yokoyama, Hisakichi Toyoda (JPN)
- 1936:
Masanori Yusa, Shigeo Sugiura, Shigeo Arai, Masaharu Taguchi (JPN)
- 1948:
Wally Ris, Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf, Bill Smith (USA)
- 1952:
Wayne Moore, Bill Woolsey, Ford Konno, Jimmy McLane (USA)
- 1956:
Kevin O'Halloran, John Devitt, Murray Rose, Jon Henricks (AUS)
- 1960:
George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy, Jeff Farrell (USA)
- 1964:
Don Schollander, Steve Clark, Roy Saari, Gary Ilman (USA)
- 1968:
Don Schollander, Mark Spitz, John Nelson, Stephen Rerych (USA)
- 1972:
Mark Spitz, John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter (USA)
- 1976:
Mike Bruner, Bruce Furniss, John Naber, Jim Montgomery (USA)
- 1980:
Sergey Koplyakov, Vladimir Salnikov, Ivar Stukolkin, Andrey Krylov (URS)
- 1984:
Mike Heath, David Larson, Jeff Float, Bruce Hayes (USA)
- 1988:
Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski, Doug Gjertsen, Matt Biondi (USA)
- 1992:
Dmitry Lepikov, Vladimir Pyshnenko, Veniamin Tayanovich, Yevgeny Sadovyi, Aleksey Kudryavtsev, Yury Mukhin (EUN)
- 1996:
Josh Davis, Joe Hudepohl, Brad Schumacher, Ryan Berube, Jon Olsen (USA)
- 2000:
Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson, Bill Kirby, Grant Hackett, Daniel Kowalski (AUS)
- 2004:
Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay, Klete Keller, Dan Ketchum, Scott Goldblatt (USA)
- 2008:
Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens, Peter Vanderkaay, David Walters, Erik Vendt, Klete Keller (USA)
- 2012:
Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer, Ricky Berens, Michael Phelps, Charlie Houchin, Matt McLean, Davis Tarwater (USA)
- 2016:
Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Clark Smith, Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz (USA)
- 2020:
Thomas Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Calum Jarvis (GBR)
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United States men's water polo squad – 1956 Summer Olympics – 5th place |
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- Frojen
- Gaughran
- Hahn (GK)
- Horn (GK)
- Hughes
- B. Kooistra (C)
- S. Kooistra
- Ross
- Severa
- Wolf
- Coach: Kohlhase
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United States men's water polo squad – 1960 Summer Olympics – 7th place |
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- Bittick
- Burns
- Crawford
- Hall (GK)
- Horn (GK)
- C. McIlroy
- Severa
- Tisue
- Volmer
- Wolf
- Coach: Kohlhase
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На других языках
- [en] Wally Wolf
[fr] Wally Wolf
Wallace Perry "Wally" Wolf, Jr (né le 2 octobre 1930 et décédé le 12 mars 1997) est un nageur et poloïste américain. Lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1948 disputés à Rome, il remporte une médaille d'or au relais 4 × 200 m nage libre, battant au passage le record du monde[1]. En 1952, il participe aux series dans cette même épreuve mais malgré la victoire américaine en finale, il ne reçoit pas de médaille d'or selon les règles de la fédération internationale à l'époque. Il a participé à deux autres éditions des Jeux olympiques, jouant dans l'équipe nationale de water-polo en 1956 et 1960.
[it] Wallace Wolf
Wallace Perry Wolf (Los Angeles, 2 ottobre 1930 – Santa Ynez, 12 marzo 2017) è stato un nuotatore statunitense.
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