Oscar Osthoff

Oscar Paul Osthoff (1883 to 1950) was an American all-round athlete and coach who won the gold medal in the all-around dumbbell event and the silver medal in the two hand lift competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics, both weightlifting events. Born in Milwaukee, he swam for the Milwaukee Athletic Club and began his football career at Marquette University before moving to the University of Wisconsin, where he lettered in four sports: football, track and field, gymnastics and swimming. After graduating he served as head football coach at Washington State College from 1910 to 1911, with a record of five wins and six losses, and built a lifelong career as a consulting structural engineer. He is a member of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted after his death in 2004.