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   What was Dwight Davis best known for?

   • Dwight F. Davis was an American tennis player and politician best known for creating the Davis Cup. He was the first to recognize that an international team competition would be beneficial for tennis. He also donated the trophy associated with the competition. Dwight Davis: The Man and the Cup by Nancy Kriplen is a three-part biography.

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   Who is Dwight Davis?

   • Dwight Davis: The Man and the Cup by Nancy Kriplen is a three-part biography. The first part is about the tennis player who was the captain of the Harvard University tennis team and won the intercollegiate singles and doubles championships in 1899. He also won the American intercollegiate singles championship in 1900.

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   Who was Dwight Filley Davis?

   • Dwight Filley Davis Sr. (July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to 1925 and Secretary of War from 1925 to 1929.

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   Who is Davis?

   • DAVIS is a total cable management systems specialist. With over 70 years of cable management leadership and technology, DAVIS continues to innovate and improvise its new range of products to meet the most rigorous requirements of today’s modern office environment. At DAVIS, we always produce what the market wants.

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   Did Dwight Davis donate a trophy?

   • He also donated the trophy associated with the competition. Dwight Davis: The Man and the Cup by Nancy Kriplen is a three-part biography. The first part is about the tennis player who was the captain of the Harvard University tennis team and won the intercollegiate singles and doubles championships in 1899.

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   Did Dwight Davis win a Davis Cup?

   • He also won the American intercollegiate singles championship in 1900. Dwight Davis played on the US team that won the first Davis Cup competition at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston in 1900.

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   Dwight Filley Davis Sr. (July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to 1925 and Secretary of War from 1925 to 1929.

3. www.tennis.com › news › articlesMeet the man for whom the Davis Cup is named | Tennis.com

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   Dec 13, 2016 · The Davis Cup is the sport’s premier men’s team competition, but how did it begin? Or more accurately, who began it? It all started in 1899, with a 21-year-old St. Louis native by the name of...

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5. www.britannica.com › biography › Dwight-F-DavisDwight F. Davis | Tennis Champion, Secretary of War ...

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   Dwight F. Davis (born July 5, 1879, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Nov. 28, 1945, Washington, D.C.) was a tennis player best known as the donor of the Davis Cup (properly the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy) for competition among teams representing various nations.

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   Nov 16, 2023 · Dwight F. Davis was an American tennis player and politician best known for creating the Davis Cup. He was the first to recognize that an international team competition would be beneficial for tennis.

7. men.itahalloffame.org › player › dwight-davisDwight Davis – ITA – MHOF

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   As a student at Harvard, Dwight Davis achieved the ultimate prizes in collegiate tennis by winning the Intercollegiate Singles and Doubles titles in 1899. That same year, Davis and his name would become synonymous with elite men’s international team tennis with the founding of the Davis Cup.

8. www.playingpasts.co.uk › articles › tennisThe Originator of the Davis Cup: Dwight Filley Davis or ‘The ...

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   Jul 6, 2017 · In the summer of 1899, Dwight F. Davis, in the company of three fellow lawn Harvardians: Beals Wright, Holcombe Ward and Malcolm Whitman, ventured across America to challenge the best of the Californian lawn tennis players (Plate 1).

9. www.olympedia.org › athletes › 2754Dwight Davis - Olympedia

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   Dwight Davis is best known as the donor of the international team tennis trophy that bears his name, the Davis Cup. A top tennis player in his youth in the United States, Davis was runner-up at the US Championships in 1898 and teamed with Holcombe Ward to win the US Doubles for three consecutive years, 1899-1901.