 Two months after the meet in Sommerville, Coe competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, Missouri.The 1904 Olympics began a period of intense and widely covered competition between Coe and Ralph Rose for supremacy in the shot put event.Rose was considered a giant of man, and at six feet, five-and-a-half inches, he was more than seven inches taller than Coe.