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Ray Ruddy

Buster Crabbe, George Kojac, Ray Ruddy and Johnny Weissmuller in 1928
Personal information
Full name	Raymond Maurice Ruddy
Nickname	"Ray"
National team	United States
Born	(1911-08-31)August 31, 1911 New York, New York
Died	December 4, 1938(1938-12-04) (aged 27) New York, New York
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, water polo
Club	New York Athletic Club
College team	Columbia University

Raymond Maurice Ruddy (August 31, 1911 – December 4, 1938) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States as a 16-year-old at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He competed in the men's 400-meter freestyle, and placed sixth in event final with a time of 5:25.0. He also finished fourth overall in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle in a time of 21:05.0.

Ruddy was born in New York City, the son of 1904 Olympic swimmer Joe Ruddy. He attended Columbia University in New York, where he was a member of the Columbia Lions swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He won the 1930 NCAA national championships in the 440-yard freestyle with a time of 4:55.6.

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, he was a member of the ninth-place U.S. water polo team.

Ruddy died as a result of brain injuries sustained in an accident fall in 1938; he was 27 years old.

In 1977, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

See also

• List of Columbia University alumni

References

1. ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Ray Ruddy. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
2. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games, Men's 400 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
3. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games, Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
4. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Joe Ruddy. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
5. HickokSports.com, Sports History, NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Champions Archived 2002-02-23 at the Library of Congress Web Archives. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
6. "Ray Ruddy, Olympic Swim Star, Killed By Plunge Down a Flight of Stairs," The New York Times (December 5, 1938). Retrieved March 28, 2013.
7. "Ray Ruddy (1977)". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
8. "Hall of Fame Inductees". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved September 18, 2020.

External links

• Ray Ruddy at World Aquatics
• Ray Ruddy at the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame
• Ray Ruddy at Olympics.com
• Ray Ruddy at Olympedia

v t e 1928 USA Olympic swimming team
Men's team	Tom Blankenburg Austin Clapp Buster Crabbe George Kojac Walter Laufer Ray Ruddy Paul Samson Johnny Weissmuller Paul Wyatt David Young
Women's team	Jane Fauntz Eleanor Garatti Agnes Geraghty Marian Gilman Margaret Hoffman Eleanor Holm Susan Laird Adelaide Lambert Lisa Lindstrom Ethel McGary Josephine McKim Martha Norelius Albina Osipowich

v t e United States men's water polo squad – 1936 Summer Olympics – 9th place
Beck Daubenspeck Finn Fiske Lauer (GK) McCallister O'Connor (C) Ruddy Wildman (GK) Coach: Swendsen

• 1911 births
• 1938 deaths
• American male freestyle swimmers
• American male water polo players
• Columbia Lions men's swimmers
• Olympic swimmers for the United States
• Olympic water polo players for the United States
• Swimmers from New York City
• Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Water polo players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Accidental deaths from falls
• Deaths from head injury
• 20th-century American sportsmen