August Frederick Kammer Jr. (June 3, 1912 – February 21, 1996) was an American

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player and amateur golfer.

Ice Hockey

In 1936 he was a member of the American ice hockey team, which won the bronze medal in the

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 February 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Nazi Ger ...

Golf

Kammer was a noted amateur golfer. He played in the

1947 Walker Cup The 1947 Walker Cup, the 11th Walker Cup Match, was played on 16 and 17 May 1947, on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. The United States won by 8 matches to 4. The match should have been played in the United States; the previous match, in ...

Personal life

Kammer was born in

Montclair, New Jersey Montclair is a Township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Situated on the cliffs of the Watchung Mountains, Montclair is a commercial and cultural hub of North Jersey and a diverse ...

and died in

Hobe Sound, Florida Hobe Sound is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Martin County, Florida, United States, located along Florida's Treasure Coast. The population was 13,163 at the 2020 census, up from 11,521 in 2010. Geography Hobe Sound ...

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* * * 1912 births 1996 deaths Amateur golfers American male golfers American men's ice hockey forwards Golfers from New Jersey Hotchkiss School alumni Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players from New Jersey Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in ice hockey Sportspeople from Montclair, New Jersey Princeton University alumni 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub