Frederick Humphrey Semple (December 24, 1872 – December 20, 1927) was an American

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player who competed in the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...

. In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the silver medal in the team golf event. He finished 14th in this competition. In the individual competition he finished 26th in the qualification and was eliminated in the first round of the match play. He also competed in the tennis doubles tournament with his partner

George Stadel The United States hosted the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. The United States won 231 medals, setting a record that still stands today. The Soviet Union came closest to beating the record with 195 medals at the 1980 Summer Olympic ...

, but they were eliminated in the first round.

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* * American male golfers Amateur golfers American male tennis players Golfers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in golf Olympic tennis players of the United States Tennis players at the 1904 Summer Olympics 1872 births 1927 deaths {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub