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George K. Oliver

polo player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ5541210 ↗
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George K. Oliver is an American polo player.

He won the U.S. Open Polo Championship in 1947, 1950, 1951, 1957 and 1961. He also won the National 20 goal three times, and the Deauville Gold Cup in 1952. He was a captain on the United States Team versus Argentina in 1950.

Oliver was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame on March 15, 1991.

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The public source identifies “George K. Oliver” as polo player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around George, Oliver and polo.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1950, 1951, 1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with George, Oliver and polo providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5541210. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “George K. Oliver” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.