Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 – September 12, 1999) was an American competition swimmer,

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champion, and former

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-holder. Stack won the gold medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke at the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...

in London.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes
Allen Stack
Retrieved October 3, 2012. Four years later at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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. He placed fourth in the final of the same event. Stack attended

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, where he swam for the

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team in

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(NCAA) competition from 1947 to 1949. He graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in 1949. He served in the

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from 1951 to 1954, and graduated from

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in 1956. He practiced law in

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until 1998.Frank Litsky,
Allen Stack, 71, a Swimmer Who Broke 6 World Records
" ''The New York Times'' (September 19, 1999). Retrieved October 3, 2012. Stack was inducted into the

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as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1979.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stack, Allen 1928 births 1999 deaths American male backstroke swimmers Columbia Law School alumni Deerfield Academy alumni Hawaii lawyers Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1951 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Yale Bulldogs men's swimmers 20th-century American lawyers Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games 20th-century American people

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