Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics
IOC code	CAN
NOC	Canadian Olympic Committee
in St. Louis
Competitors	52
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 4 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 6
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1906 Intercalated Games

Canada competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States. These Games were the second at which Canadian athletes participated. As in 1900 they did not compete under the Canadian flag, national teams not being introduced until the next Olympics. Unofficially, however, it was a very successful Olympics for Canada with Canadian competitors winning the fourth most medals. However, this was largely because most Europeans decided not to make the long trip to compete in the games. The Canadian athletes were a unified group for the first time and were unofficially regarded as a team.

Medallists

Further information: 1904 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 1904 Summer Olympics medal winners

The most notable Canadian medal winner was Etienne Desmarteau who placed first in the 56 pound weight throw. He was fired as a Montreal police officer when he left to compete at the games. Returning as a medallist and local hero he was reinstated, but died the next year of typhoid.

Canada won two golds in team sports, two thirds of Canada's total in all summer games. The Canadian soccer team from Galt, Ontario won gold and a team known as the Winnipeg Shamrocks won the field lacrosse title. The third-place finishers were also from Canada, a team of Mohawks from a reserve near Brantford.

Of note was Peter Deer, an Iroquois Indian, who competed in the 800 & 1500 metres races; he was the first Native person to represent Canada outside her borders. Deer was a mechanic by day and was a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletics Association. He was 23 in 1904, he came from Caughnawaga, a native village on the South Bank.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Étienne Desmarteau	Athletics	Men's 56 lb weight throw	September 1
Gold	Galt F.C. Otto Christman George Ducker John Fraser John Gourlay Alexander Hall Albert Henderson Albert Johnson Robert Lane Ernest Linton Gordon McDonald Frederick Steep Tom Taylor William Twaits	Football		November 23
Gold	George Lyon	Golf	Men's individual	September 24
Gold	Shamrock Lacrosse Team [1] Élie Blanchard William Brennaugh George Bretz William Burns George Cattanach George Cloutier Sandy Cowan Jack Flett Benjamin Jamieson Stuart Laidlaw Hilliard Lyle William F. L. Orris Lawrence Pentland	Lacrosse		July 7
Silver	Alan Bailey , Phil Boyd, Thomas Loudon, Don MacKenzie, George Reiffenstein, William Rice, George Strange, William Wadsworth, Joseph Wright	Rowing	Men's eight	July 30
Bronze	Mohawk Indians Black Hawk Black Eagle Almighty Voice Flat Iron Spotted Tail Half Moon Lightfoot Snake Eater Red Jacket Night Hawk Man Afraid of the Soap Rain in Face	Lacrosse		July 7

Results by event

Étienne Desmarteau

Percival Molson

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Event	Place	Athlete	Heats	Repechage	Final
Men's 60 metres	7-8	Robert Kerr	unknown 2nd, heat 3	unknown 3–4, repechage	did not advance

Event	Place	Athlete	Heats	Final
Men's 100 metres	7-11	Robert Kerr	unknown 3rd, heat 2	did not advance
Men's 200 metres	5th	Robert Kerr	unknown 3rd, heat 2	did not advance

Event	Place	Athlete	Final
Men's 400 metres	7-12	Percival Molson	unknown
Men's 800 metres	7-13	Peter Deer	unknown
		John Peck	unknown
Men's 1500 metres	6th	Peter Deer	unknown
Men's 56 pound weight throw	1st	Étienne Desmarteau	10.46 metres OR

Football

Main article: Football at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Canada made its first football appearance in 1904, sending a club team to St. Louis. The team defeated each of the two United States club teams in the round-robin tournament. The International Olympic Committee later recognized the tournament as the official one and awarded the club a gold medal for its performance.

Summary

Team	Event	Wins	Losses	Percent	Rank
Galt F.C.	Men's football	2 (USA 7–0) (USA 4–0)	0	1.000

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Galt FC (C)	2	2	0	0	11	0	+11	4	Champions
2	Christian Brothers College (H)	3	1	1	1	2	7	−5	3
3	St. Rose Parish (H)	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1

Source: RSSF
(C) Champions; (H) Hosts

Matches

November 16, 1904

Christian Brothers College	0–7	Galt FC
	Report Report 2	Steep Taylor McDonald Hall

Francis Olympic Field, St. Louis

Referee: Paul McSweeney (United States)

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November 17, 1904

St. Rose Parish	0–4	Galt FC
	Report	Taylor Henderson Unknown(o.g.)

Francis Olympic Field, St. Louis

Referee: Paul McSweeney (United States)

Team details
GK Frank Frost RB George Cooke LB Henry Jameson RH Joseph Brady CH Edward Dierkes LH Martin Dooling OR Cormic Cosgrove IR Leo O'Connell CF Claude Jameson IL Harry Tate OL Thomas Cooke GK Ernest Linton RB George Ducker LB John Gourlay (c) RH Robert Lane CH Albert Johnston LH Otto Christman OR Thomas Taylor IR Frederick Steep CF Alexander Hall IL Albert Henderson OL William Twaits

Roster

Head coach: Louis Duff

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
	1 GK	Ernest Linton	(1880-02-17)17 February 1880 (aged 24)	0	Galt FC
	2 DF	John Gourlay (captain)	(1872-07-26)26 July 1872 (aged 32)	0	Galt FC
	2 DF	George Ducker	(1871-09-27)27 September 1871 (aged 33)	0	Galt FC
	3 MF	Bobby Lane	(1882-01-15)15 January 1882 (aged 22)	0	Galt FC
	3 MF	Albert Johnston	(1880-04-17)17 April 1880 (aged 24)	0	Galt FC
	3 MF	Jack Fraser	(1881-12-15)15 December 1881 (aged 22)	0	Galt FC
	3 MF	Otto Christman	(1880-02-20)20 February 1880 (aged 24)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	William Twaits	(1878-08-20)20 August 1878 (aged 26)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	Tom Taylor	(1880-12-04)4 December 1880 (aged 23)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	Fred Steep	(1874-12-20)20 December 1874 (aged 29)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	Gordon McDonald	(1878-02-02)2 February 1878 (aged 26)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	Sandy Hall	(1880-12-03)3 December 1880 (aged 23)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	Red Henderson	(1881-08-29)29 August 1881 (aged 23)	0	Galt FC
	4 FW	Parnell Gourlay	(1879-02-03)3 February 1879 (aged 25)	0	Galt FC

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics

George Seymour Lyon

Event	Place	Golfer	Qualification	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Men's individual	1st	George Lyon	169 (9th)	Defeated John Cady	Defeated Stuart Stickney	Defeated Albert Lambert	Defeated Francis Newton	Defeated Chandler Egan
	65th	Bertie Austin	211	did not advance
	73rd	Albert Austin	270

Lacrosse

Main article: Lacrosse at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Two teams from Canada played in the 1904 lacrosse competition. The Winnipeg Shamrocks defeated the team from St. Louis by a score of 8–2 in the final to win gold.

Event	Place	Team	Semifinals	Final
Men's lacrosse	1st	Shamrock Lacrosse Team	Moved directly to finals	Defeated   United States St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association
	3rd	Mohawk Indians	Lost to   United States St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association	did not advance

Winnipeg Shamrocks

Winnipeg Shamrocks	Mohawk Indians
George Cloutier George Cattanach Benjamin Jamieson Jack Flett George Bretz Élie Blanchard Hilliard Laidlaw Hilliard Lyle William Brennaugh L.H. Pentland Sandy Cowan William Burns William F.L. Orris	Black Hawk Black Eagle Almighty Voice Flat Iron Spotted Tail Half Moon Lightfoot Snake Eater Red Jacket Night Hawk Man Afraid of the Soap Rain in Face

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Event	Place	Crew	Final
Eight	2nd	Arthur Bailey, William Rice, George Reiffenstein, Phil Boyd, George Strange, William Wadsworth, Don MacKenzie, Joseph Wright, Thomas Loudon	unknown

References

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• sports-reference

1. "1904 Winnipeg Shamrocks". Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2017-05-27.