Joseph Aloysius Ruddy Sr. was an American competition swimmer, water polo player and coach, born in New York City on 28 September 1878, who died in Far Rockaway, New York on 11 November 1962. Representing the New York Athletic Club at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, he led off the winning 4x50 yard freestyle relay team and won a second gold medal in the club's water polo team, which beat the Chicago Athletic Association 6 to 0 in the final. He coached swimming and water polo for the club from about 1930 to 1954, with water polo teams that went undefeated in national championships from 1930 to 1939, and he acted as an Olympic water polo referee in 1928. He was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame in 1977 and also worked as a civil service physical examiner.
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Ruddy won a second gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. water polo team that represented the New York Athletic Club
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