Field hockey player Kurt Lehrfeld was an Austrian team member at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. The team finished ninth and last in the tournament. The team lost all matches in the preliminary round, scoring only one goal, against Denmark. Lehrfeld was a Jew and came from Makkabi Mährisch-Ostrau to the field hockey section of FC Hakoah Wien (Vienna) in September 1920. He played for Hakoah and later coached their women’s team virtually up to the time the club was dissolved by the Nazis in 1938. Lehrfeld was able to flee to Palestine that year.
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