Quality footage from 1928 Olympics (including close-ups and slow-motion captures)

[greyraven8]

That Curling footage at 38-ish minutes is hilarious.

First of all, 1928 Curling? Wow.

They are also using real brooms.

1936 Winter Olympics had a demonstration sport that was a variant of curling - Ice Stock Sport or Bavarian Curling (Eisstockstießen). Video is labelled from the right year and area, but no idea if it's from the 1936 Winter Olympics:

http://footage.framepool.com/mov/659-829-211.ogv

Few pics of ice stock sport from the 1936 Olympics:

 

[Crosbyfan]

Around 54 minutes you see horse racing on a snow covered track…then at about 57:30…absolutely nuts…the horses are towing skiers racing around the same course, all in tight racing with other horse towed skiers, and some horses still racing having already lost their skier…hard to believe no one was killed!

 

[Pasha71]

This is a tough one.

We know it's Winter Olympics 1928, the last day of the Final Round, Canada - Switzerland 13:0 (Canada ends up with gold, Switzerland with bronze).

Any way to identify any of the players? I suppose all but one are Swiss...

 

[sr edler]

Canadian player is probably one of the Plaxton's, Hugh most likely.

 

[sr edler]

Of the Swiss goalies Charly Fasel let in 4 goals in the tourney and Arnold Martignoni 17 which means the latter must have played (at least the bulk of the game) against Canada.

 

[sr edler]

Swiss player in the foreground could be

Toni Morosani

 

[Pasha71]

Of the Swiss goalies Charly Fasel let in 4 goals in the tourney and Arnold Martignoni 17 which means the latter must have played (at least the bulk of the game) against Canada.

You are right. Martignoni played in two games, including this one:

Arnold Martignoni Bio, Stats, and Results

He conceded 13 goals by Canada, and apparently all 4 by Austria.

Fasel played in four games.

Charly Fasel Bio, Stats, and Results

He conceded 4 goals by Sweden, none by Britain or Germany, and apparently none by Austria either (I guess he replaced Martignoni at some point):

Ice hockey at the 1928 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

February 11

Switzerland

4:4 (2:4,1:0,1:0)

Austria

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Apparently, Martignoni let in 4 goals quickly, and then Fasel replaced him and played all the way until he conceded 4 goals by Sweden... so the coach put Martignoni in against Canada... big mistake!

 

[Albatros]

Apparently, Martignoni let in 4 goals quickly, and then Fasel replaced him and played all the way until he conceded 4 goals by Sweden... so the coach put Martignoni in against Canada... big mistake!

It would not have been any different with Fasel, it was a purely defensive battle for the Swiss and the score was always going to get ugly. Four years earlier Canada had demolished the Swiss 33:0.

The player on the right could be Albert Geromini.

 

[Robert Gordon Orr]

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This is a tough one.

We know it's Winter Olympics 1928, the last day of the Final Round, Canada - Switzerland 13:0 (Canada ends up with gold, Switzerland with bronze).

Any way to identify any of the players? I suppose all but one are Swiss...

Left to Right - Arnold Martignoni (Goalie) - Toni Morosani - Hugh Plaxton - Bobby Breiter - Franz Geromini

Plaxton was the only one on the Canadian team who taped his legs in a white-black-black-white pattern.
Breiter is seen using his trademark white sun shield. Morosani and Geromini were right hand shooters.
Martignoni in goal by the way had 57 saves in the game. Plaxton had 6 points in the game (4 goals).

 

[Theokritos]

Merged with an older thread with stunning video footage from that 1928 game.

 

[Danny46]

The quality of the image is amazing...

 

[Pasha71]

The quality of the image is amazing...

I think the photo is from an Olympic Museum in Switzerland.

 

[Eisen]

Thank you for that thread necro. I wouldn't have seen that absolutely stunning footage without it.

 

[Pominville Knows]

Very unfortunate that the U.S. did not participate, they used to love the silver medals back then. Although they like Canada seem to have used club teams often.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Unbelievable quality