 In athletics, General Olmsted was the featherweight boxing champion of the Academy and won his varsity "A" as manager and second-string quarterback of the 1922 Army football team.After graduation, Olmsted served in the active army until October 1923 when he returned to civilian life in Des Moines to enter business with his father who was running a small insurance agency.By the beginning of 1924, they had expanded the agency into a general line fire and casualty agency named Olmsted & Olmsted.