Harry Fryckberg

Harry Fryckberg represented the Shanahan Catholic Club and later the Meadowbrook Club, both in Philadelphia. His greatest success was a second place at the 1912 AAU Championships in the long jump behind Platt Adams. Fryckberg was a versatile athlete and took two titles at the Middle Atlantic Association Championships in 1913, the long jump and the 220 yd low hurdles. He was selected for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic team to compete in the pentathlon but did not start. His last documented result as an athlete was a fourth place in the long jump at the Middle Atlantic Association Championships in 1917.

Fryckberg was a member of the traffic division of the Philadelphia Police Department and excelled at the regular police track meets. In World War I, he served in Europe with the 109th Infantry Regiment as a lieutenant and was decorated for valour. In September 1917, he was wounded by machine-gun fire near Varennes-en-Argonne and subsequently hospitalised.

After the war, he became a sales manager for a sporting goods company in Atlanta and retired in 1935. He was admitted to a hospital for heart problems and died just one week later. Fryckberg was married to Margaret McCauley. The couple had a son and a daughter.