Who was a two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion who later inspired a Scottish footballer to shift gears from tennis to football?
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Jenna Fife Jenna Fife (born 1 December 1995) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Hibernian in the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL). Fife had an early interest in tennis before shifting gears towards football. An inspiration for Fife was United States goalkeeper Hope Solo.
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Hope Solo Hope Amelia Solo (born July 30, 1981) is an American soccer goalkeeper, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and World Cup champion. She was the goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team from 2000 through August 2016. After playing at the collegiate level for the University of Washington, she played professionally for the Philadelphia Charge in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). When the WUSA folded after her first season, she traveled to Europe to play for the top division leagues in Sweden and France. From 2009 to 2011, she played in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) for Saint Louis Athletica, Atlanta Beat and magicJack. After the WPS ceased operations in early 2012, she played for the Seattle Sounders in the W-League. She most recently played for Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States.
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Alex Donaldson Alexander Pollock Donaldson (4 December 1890 – 1972) was a Scottish footballer, who played for numerous teams in England as well as the Scotland national team. An outside-forward, he stayed with Bolton Wanderers from 1912 to 1921, and also spent time with Sunderland, Manchester City, Chorley, and Ashton National. After his football career ended, he opened a sports shop in Gorton, Manchester.
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Winifred McNair Winifred McNair (née Winifred Margaret Slocock, 9 August 1877 – 28 March 1954) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her women's doubles (partnering Kathleen McKane) gold medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Between 1906 and 1925 she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. Her best Wimbledon result came in 1913 when she reached the final of the all-comers' event and won the doubles title, partnering Dora Boothby.
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John Watson (footballer, born 1877) John Watson (born 1877, date of death unknown) was a Scottish professional footballer at the turn of the twentieth century.
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List of Scotland international footballers The Scotland national football team is the joint-oldest international football team, having played in the first official international match, a goalless draw on 30 November 1872 against England. Since then, the team has established a long-standing rivalry with England, particularly in the annual British Home Championship, which Scotland won 24 times outright and shared a further 17 times. The team has enjoyed less success in continental and global competition. Even though Scotland has participated in eight FIFA World Cup and two UEFA European Championship final tournaments, the team has never progressed beyond the first round of any major tournament.
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Millar Hay Millar Adam Hay (born 20 May 1946) is a retired Scottish amateur football forward who made over 150 appearances in the Scottish League for Queen's Park. He also played for Clyde and Hamilton Academical. Hay represented Scotland at amateur level and made two 1968 Summer Olympic qualifying appearances for Great Britain.
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Lawrence Morgan Lawrence "Laurie" Morgan (5 February 1915 – 19 August 1997) was an Australian sportsman who is the only person to play VFL/AFL football and win an Olympic Gold Medal. He played his Australian rules football with Fitzroy during the late 1930s and won two gold medals in equestrian at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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Ally Mauchlen Alistair Henry Mauchlen (born 29 June 1960) is a Scottish former footballer, who later went into coaching.
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Football in Scotland Association football is one of the national sports of Scotland and the most popular sport in the country. There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of these include carrying the ball and passing "by hand", and despite bearing the name "football" bear little resemblance to association football.
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Jock Shaw Jock "Tiger" Shaw (29 November 1912 – 13 June 2000) was a Scottish professional footballer most famous for his time at Scottish club Rangers, whom he captained between 1938 and 1950.
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Alfredo Foni Alfredo Foni (20 January 1911 – 28 January 1985) was an Italian footballer in the 1930s and later on a coach, who played as a defender. He is one of only four players to have won both an Olympic gold medal and the FIFA World Cup with the Italy national football team.
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Archie Gemmill Archibald "Archie" Gemmill (born 24 March 1947 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish former footballer. During his career he won the European Cup, three English league titles and captained his national side. He scored a goal against the Netherlands in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, which is regularly cited as one of the greatest scored in the competition.
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György Dungyersky György Dungyersky (Serbian: Đorđe Dunđerski, Ђорђе Дунђерски , ] ; Hungarian: "Dungyersky György" , ] ; born 1902 in Srbobran; died 1983 in Futog) was a Yugoslav tennis player of Serbian ethnicity. He was the first to play for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge, and later the Davis Cup in 1927. He was also the first and only Yugoslavian tennis Olympian until the reinstatement of tennis to the Olympic programme in 1988. Apart from that he was a three-time Swiss champion.
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Alex Croak Alexandra "Alex" Croak (born 9 July 1984) is an Australian diver and gymnast who is a dual Olympic representative. She represented Australia as a gymnast at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and after a strong performance at the 2008 Australian national Diving Championships, she was selected for Australia's diving team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is the first Australian athlete to win gold medals at the Commonwealth games in two different disciplines (diving and gymnastics). She was also an Australian Institute of Sport gymnastics and diving scholarship holder.
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Jan de Natris Johannes ("Jan") Daniel de Natris (13 November 1895 in Amsterdam – 16 September 1972 in Amsterdam) was a football (soccer) player from the Netherlands, who represented his home country at both the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
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Charles P. Dixon Charles Percy Dixon (7 February 1873 – 29 April 1939) was a male tennis player from Great Britain. He was a four-time Olympic medallist and led a successful British team to victory in the Davis Cup.
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Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics was one of the 102 events at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the fourth time that football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was contested between 11 nations, all of them from Europe, with Great Britain winning the gold medals (the IOC accredits Great Britain and Ireland with the medal). Replicating the 1908 tournament, Denmark won silver medals and the Netherlands won bronze medals.
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Alex Troup Alexander Troup, known as Alex Troup and Alec Troup (4 May 1895 – 1951) was a Scottish footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a winger.
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Alex Wilson (footballer, born 1908) Alexander Adams Wilson (29 October 1908 – 16 March 1971) was a Scottish football player.
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Max Decugis Maxime "Max" Omer Mathieu Decugis or Décugis (] ; 24 September 1882 – 6 September 1978) was a male tennis player from France who held the French Championships/French Open record of winning the tournament eight times (a French club members only tournament before 1925), a feat that was surpassed by Rafael Nadal in 2014. He also won three Olympic medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics (Paris) and the 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp), his only gold medal coming in the mixed doubles partnering French legend Suzanne Lenglen.
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Tennis for Two Tennis for Two is a sports video game developed in 1958, which simulates a game of tennis, and was one of the first games developed in the early history of video games. American physicist William Higinbotham designed the game for display at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's annual public exhibition after learning that the government research institution's Donner Model 30 analog computer could simulate trajectories with wind resistance. He designed the game, displayed on an oscilloscope and played with two custom aluminum controllers, in a few hours, after which he and technician Robert V. Dvorak built it over three weeks. The game's visuals show a representation of a tennis court viewed from the side, and players adjust the angle of their shots with a knob on their controller and try to hit the ball over the net by pressing a button.