Philip Whalley ALLISON

Philip Allison competed in team foil for the US at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Allison also competed as a modern pentathlete and had to choose which sport he wished to play in Paris, choosing fencing. Allison went to Cornell University, graduating in 1911, where he captained the fencing team as a senior and led them to the Intercollegiate Fencing Association title that year. Allison fenced both foil and sabre and represented the New York Athletic Club, fencing on eight national championship teams. He was a career military officer, retiring as a colonel from the US Army.