Olympic Games Gold Medalist Athlete. He was a track and field athlete on the first United States Olympic team, and won the Pole Vault event in the first modern Olympics in Athens, Greece in 1896. One of nine members of the Boston Athletic Association (as well as being a Harvard University member) who became part of the fourteen-member United States team, he competed in the pole vault and 110 meter high hurdles. Two American and three Greek athletes competed in the pole vault, and after the Greeks were eliminated it became a two-man contest between Bill Hoyt of Harvard and fellow American Albert Tyler of Princeton University. Hoyt was successful, which won him pole vault championship. At home, Hoyt had placed second in the Intercollegiate American Amateur Athletic Association pole vault championships in 1895 and 1897, and he tied for first place in 1898. After finishing his Harvard undergraduate years in 1987, he entered Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1901. He first practiced as a doctor in Chicago, Illinois and was later commissioned into the 1st Illinois Field Hospital Company, serving in France in 1918 during World War I. After the war he resumed his Chicago practice, but soon returned to France as a surgeon with the foreign service of the United States Public Health Service, serving overseas for many years. He finally settled in Berlin, New York, where he continued to practice medicine.
Olympic Games Gold Medalist Athlete. He was a track and field athlete on the first United States Olympic team, and won the Pole Vault event in the first modern Olympics in Athens, Greece in 1896. One of nine members of the Boston Athletic Association (as well as being a Harvard University member) who became part of the fourteen-member United States team, he competed in the pole vault and 110 meter high hurdles. Two American and three Greek athletes competed in the pole vault, and after the Greeks were eliminated it became a two-man contest between Bill Hoyt of Harvard and fellow American Albert Tyler of Princeton University. Hoyt was successful, which won him pole vault championship. At home, Hoyt had placed second in the Intercollegiate American Amateur Athletic Association pole vault championships in 1895 and 1897, and he tied for first place in 1898. After finishing his Harvard undergraduate years in 1987, he entered Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1901. He first practiced as a doctor in Chicago, Illinois and was later commissioned into the 1st Illinois Field Hospital Company, serving in France in 1918 during World War I. After the war he resumed his Chicago practice, but soon returned to France as a surgeon with the foreign service of the United States Public Health Service, serving overseas for many years. He finally settled in Berlin, New York, where he continued to practice medicine.
Bio by: T.V.F.T.H.
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