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The San Francisco Olympic Club is the oldest athletic Club in the United States. It was founded on May 6, 1860 in a firehouse downtown in the still-new city by 23 young men whose number included artists, writers, lawyers, businessmen, working men, firemen, miners, immigrants and adventurers.
This diversity did then and continues now to give this extraordinary institution a special egalitarian character. But for all of the variety, Club members hold in common a single consuming passion for athletic excellence. And few organizations the world over have sent forth so many stellar athletes or so many who have registered "firsts" in their sports.
The earliest of these innovators was James J. Corbett, who as boxing's "Gentleman Jim" dethroned as World Heavyweight Champion the Great John L. Sullivan. In doing so he revolutionized his sport by demonstrating that a "scientific boxer" could whip a slugger. The Olympic Club also spawned in J. Scott Leary the first American to swim (in 1905) one hundred yards in 60 seconds flat and in Ralph rose the first shot putter (in 1909) to exceed 50 feet.
The Club's Maurice McLoughlin was the first successful practitioner of the "Big Game" of serve and volley in tennis, and he won the U.S. Singles Championship in 1912 and 1913. He was succeeded by his Clubmate, William "Little bill" Johnston, who won the title in 1915 and '19, as well as Wimbledon in 1923. The Olympic Club's Cornelius Warmendam in 1942 became the first pole vaulter to clear 15 feet. Its Hank Luisetti changed basketball for all time by pioneering the one-hand shot in the 1930s.
Between 1929 and 1950, the Club won six AAU championships in track and field. It has won 12 U.S. Open titles and three Masters championships in water polo. And it has won eight U.S. Masters and four World Masters championships in swimming. Since 1920 its handball players have consistently achieved national prominence, winning national championships time and again. At its gorgeous Lakeside country Club overlooking the Pacific Ocean the OC today boasts of two championship-quality golf courses, as well as a nine-hole par three spread. The premier Lakeside course has been the site of four U.S. Open championships---in 1955, 1966, 1987 and 1998.
More than 6000 members - men and women, juveniles and juniors - now enjoy a vast variety of sports in both the downtown Clubhouse on Post Street and at Lakeside that range from Swimming, Handball, Squash and Basketball to Golf, Tennis, Rugby and Soccer. The original promise has been kept, but if they somehow were alive today those original 23 members would most likely be astonished by what they would see a couple of centuries later. Then again, maybe they wouldn't be, for they were all dreamers.