Kenneth Beck

Kenneth Melwyn Beck (April 19, 1915 – May 1, 1982) was an American water polo player who competed with the U.S. team at the Summer Olympics in 1936 and 1948. He later had a long career as a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Beck was born in Lovelock, Nevada on April 19, 1995. He played water polo for Southern California's Inglewood High School in Los Angeles. He greatly improved his skills playing for the highly competitive Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) from 1930–1948, where he served on teams that won the AAU Sr. National Outdoor Championship in both 1941, and 1947. By June 1947, he played with several outstanding fellow Los Angeles area Water Polo players on the LAAC who would compete with him as team mates on the 1948 U.S. Olympic team including Bob Bray of Fullerton Jr. College, Lee Case of USC, and Devere Christensen and Dixon Fiske of UCLA. Provided by Wikipedia