Olympic Club is an athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, California.
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15 Facts About Olympic Club
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Olympic Club later went on to coach boxing at the club for many years.
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Women who could not join the men-only Olympic Club built their own modest athletic club a few doors down, named the Women's Athletic Club of San Francisco.
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In 1966, the Olympic Club changed its name to the Metropolitan Olympic Club of San Francisco.
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In 1918, the club took over the Lakeside Golf Olympic Club, which had just opened in 1917 but was struggling financially.
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Olympic Club hosted the 2004 U S Junior Amateur and the U S Amateur in 1958 and 1981 .
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At least five Olympic Club members have won the Dipsea Race, which was founded by OC members: Oliver Millard in 1910 and 1913, Mason Hartwell in 1917, Norman Bright in 1970, Joe King in 1995 and 1996, and Shirley Matson in 1993.
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That year, the Olympic Club was accused by a rival club of enticing athletes to jump to its ranks with offers of jobs.
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Olympic Club was a member of the Olympic's "Winged-O" football eleven that handed the University of California's "Wonder Team" their first loss in five seasons.
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Olympic Club members played a major part in the first All-Star football game.
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Olympic Club later had a long distinguished career as coach of the Washington State football team and coached in 18 Shrine games.
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Olympic Club's City Clubhouse is a masonry building on Post Street, two blocks west of Union Square in San Francisco, next door to the Bohemian Club and on the same block as the Marines Memorial Club.
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Olympic Club was the setting of the 1966 episode "The Fight San Francisco Never Forgot" of the syndicated western television series, Death Valley Days.
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Olympic Club has hosted the PGA Tour's season-ending event, The Tour Championship, twice, in 1993 and 1994.
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