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field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament:

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. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland and Wales were awarded bronze medals. All the medals were subsequently credited to

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Squads

* R. P. Aublin * David Baidet * Raoul Benoist *

André Bounal At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland ...

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* Daniel Girard *

Charles Pattin At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland and Wal ...

* Louis Poupon * Frédéric Roux * René Salarnier (GK) * Louis Saulnier *

Fernand Versini At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland and Wal ...

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* Elard Dauelsberg *

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(GK) *

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Mauricio Galvao Mauricio Galvao (21 January 1890 – 6 March 1945) was a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during World War II. Personal life Galvao served as a ''hauptmann ...

* Raulino Galvao *

Fritz Möding Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridolin ...

* Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe * Albert Stüdemann * Friedrich Uhl

Great Britain

* Louis Baillon * Harry Freeman * Eric Green * Gerald Logan * Alan Noble * Edgar Page * Reggie Pridmore * Percy Rees * John Yate Robinson * Stanley Shoveller * Harvey Wood (GK) * Edward Allman-Smith * Henry Brown * Walter Campbell * William Graham * Richard Gregg * Edward Holmes (GK) * Robert Kennedy * Henry Murphy * Jack Peterson * Walter Peterson * Charles Power * Franks Robinson * Alexander Burt * John Burt (GK) *

Alastair Denniston Commander Alexander "Alastair" Guthrie Denniston (1 December 1881 – 1 January 1961) was a Scottish codebreaker in Room 40, deputy head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and hockey player. Denniston was appointed operational he ...

* Charles Foulkes * Hew Fraser * James Harper-Orr * Ivan Laing * Hugh Neilson * Gordon Orchardson * Norman Stevenson * Hugh Walker * Frank Connah * Llewellyn Evans * Arthur Law * Robert Lyne * Wilfred Pallott * Frederick Phillips * Edwin Richards * Charles Shephard * Bertrand Turnbull (GK) * Philip Turnbull * James Williams

Results

Bracket

First round

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Semi-finals

There were no playoffs for third place, so the losers of the semi-finals received bronze medals. ----

Extra match

A match between the two continental teams took place between the semifinals and the final. Given both France and Germany had lost in the first round, this extra match was a ''de facto'' fifth and sixth place playoff match, though the official report makes no mention of this.

Final

The official report ceases its description of the game after England took the lead 5–1, saying only that "by this time England had taken control of the game and won with eight goals to one".Official Report, p. 203

Final standings

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Sources

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References

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