Page 89 - Celebrating 50 Years of the International swimming Hall of Fame

Remembering the ISHOF Class of 1968
E. Carroll Schaeffer - Honor Swimmer (USA) Emil Rausch - Honor Swimmer (GER)
E. Carroll Schaeffer was the first Emil Rausch has the distinction of being the last swimmer to
great American collegiate swimmer. win an Olympic medal doing the side-stroke - a stroke that
Called “Midget” because of his carried him to gold medals in the 800 and mile swims and
small stature, Schaeffer swam his a bronze in the 400 meters at the 1904 Olympic Games in
way back from polio and weighed St. Louis. In 2011, ISHOF acquired Rausch’s medal and pin
a scant 118 lbs. when he began his collection that includes his three Olympic medals form 1904
brilliant swimming career in college. - medals that differed from medals given to the other sports
While attending the University and are believed to be the only ones of their kind in existence.
of Pennsylvania (the school that
Benjamin Franklin started) he held
every American record from 20 yds.
to one mile. Ironically, he never
seemed interested in international or Olympic competition,
preferring to spend his summers in Maine at his summer
job. He did win the Canadian championship in 1899 in the
Ottawa River and, on a 1904 trip
to Europe, two years after his
retirement, he defeated both the
French and English champions
in match challenge races. Of his
phenomenal feats in the pool,
his coach George Kistler said:
“Schaeffer never had to extend
himself in the middle distance
events so I never did find out just
how fast he could swim.” After
retiring Schaefer began a long
and successful career as a lawyer
in his hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania. Schaeffer’s
scrap book and many of his medals are part of the ISHOF
collection. Emil Rausch Medal Collection

Zoltán de Halmay - Honor Swimmer (HUN) John Arthur Jarvis - Honor Swimmer (GBR)
Halmay was a great all- John Jarvis called himself the “Amateur Swimming Champion
round athlete: a champion of the World” and he had 108 swimming championships to
runner who played prove it. Swimming
football, water polo and a near perfect “over-
won the 5,000 meters ice- arm side stroke” in
skating championships of the Seine River, at the
Hungary - but he was first 1900 Paris Olympic
and foremost a swimmer. Games, Jarvis won
After winning two silver gold in the 1000 and
medals in the 1000m and 4000 meters. He was
4000m swim and and a so dominant in the
bronze medal in the 200m latter event that he
swim at the 1900 Paris beat silver medalist
Games, Halmay adopted Zoltan de Halmay
a new sprinting technique. by over ten minutes.
Known as the “Hungarian During the late
tempo” - a variation of 19th and early 20th
the Australian Crawl. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. century, Jarvis was
Louis, the “Hungarian Shark” won both the 50 and 100 yard the wonder of world
freestyle events. It was only after his dominating victories John Jarvis photographed with a portion of swimming.
that the Americans and the rest of the world’s great swimmers his winnings.
abandoned the Trudgeon and side strokes and started taking
the crawl stroke seriously. g

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