Meredith Colket, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Meredith Colket

American tennis player

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1878

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1947

Profession: tennis player, pole vaulter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Meredith Bright Colket (November 19, 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 7, 1947, Philadelphia) was an American pole vaulter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
He participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the silver medal in the men's pole vault ahead of Norwegian Carl-Albert Andersen who won bronze.
Irving Baxter won gold. Colket was a 1901 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He organized the first tennis team at Penn.
He worked as an attorney for the General Accident Insurance Company.
He died of a heart attack in Philadelphia in 1947. Colket's son, Meredith B.
Colket Jr.
(1912–1985), was a noted genealogist.