Ralph McKittrick (August 17, 1877 – May 4, 1923) 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 ...

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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. In 1904 McKittrick was part of the American team which won the silver medal in the team golf event. He finished eleventh in this competition. In the individual competition he finished first in the qualification but was eliminated in the second round of the match play. McKittrick also competed in the single tennis competition but was eliminated in the second round. With his partner

Dwight F. Davis Dwight Filley Davis Sr. (July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to ...

he also participated in the tennis doubles tournament, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals. He graduated from

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American male golfers American male tennis players Golfers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of the United States Olympic silver medalists for the United States in golf Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Harvard Crimson men's tennis players Place of birth missing 1877 births 1923 deaths {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub