Competitor Number worn by Louis Nixdorff in the 1928 Olympics
name: label: user
content: Nixdorff, Louis S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Blue felt number 5. Worn by Lacrosse player Louis Nixdorff in the 1928 Olympics. This number was worn by the donor's father, Louis S. Nixdorff while a member of the lacrosse team at the 1928 Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Nixdorff was a member of the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team which was chosen to represent the United States at the Games that year.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1928 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the IX Olympiad were held in Amsterdam with 46 countries, 2,606 men and 277 women athletes participating. Instead of the months long competition which had been standard to date, the sixteen-day template for holding the Games began during these Games as did the lighting of the Olympic flame for the duration of the Games. While Olympic sponsors began at the 1908 games with soup stock company Oxo, Coca-Cola became an Olympic sponsor for the first time at the 1928 Games, a partnership that exists today. With the advent of the automobile, parking at the Amsterdam games was expected to be in demand although there were few spaces available. A new parking symbol was used to specify parking for the Games, a white P on a blue ground, the international sign still used today. While women’s athletics and gymnastics were added this year, the IOC limited the women’s long-distance running events to 200 meters as women were judged “too frail” to run farther distances. American Johnny Weissmuller, who would later gain fame in Hollywood playing Tarzan, won two gold medals while the United States led the medal count with 56.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Olympics
label: Subject
content: Lacrosse
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anne Byrd Nixdorff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0226.03
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0226.03
label: accession number
content: 1993.0226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: number, competitor
label: Object Name
content: competitor number, olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth, felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.5 cm x 7.2 cm; 1 25/32 in x 2 27/32 in