Personal Life
George Hodgson was born in 1893 in Montreal, Canada. He matriculated at McGill University in 1912, competing in swimming and water polo for the school. While there, he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, and graduated with a baccalaureate in Applied Science in 1916. He was inducted into the Canadian Amateur Sports Hall of Fame in 1949, the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968, into the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame in 1996, and died in Montreal in 1983.
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