George K. Oliver is an American

polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...

player.Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, George K. Oliver's biography
/ref> He won the U.S. Open Polo Championship in 1947, 1950, 1951, 1957 and 1961.Hurlingham Media: U.S. Open Polo Championship
He also won the National 20 goal three times, and the

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Gold Cup in 1952. He was a captain on the United States Team versus

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in 1950. Oliver was inducted into the

Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization to celebrate the sport of polo.Horace Laffaye, Dennis J. Amato, ''Polo in the United States: A History'', Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 28/ref> Overview It ...

on March 15, 1991.

References

Living people American polo players Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-sport-bio-stub