Word: chukker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner's alert abandon, helped account for all three of the East's first chukker goals. Then red-helmeted Hopping slammed his pony unchecked into rangy Boeseke, rolled him to the ground and his pony over him. With a twisted right ankle, Boeseke played on. A foul was called and the West scored its first goal. For five periods the West kept within striking distance...
Nicholas and Benson, Crimson number 1 man, were high scorers with three goals apiece, while Davis scored the remaining Crimson goal. Both Harvard and Penn tallies were well scattered throughout the match, neither team scoring more than twice in one chukker. The Penn scoring machine received a setback in the opening chukker when the pony ridden by Pickering. Penn number 2, fell and rolled on his rider. Despite this shaking up, Pickering tied with Young for his team's scoring honors...
...Yale game three weeks ago against a favored Eli team, the Varsity's last-chukker rally was all that saved them from an overwhelming defeat. If they can get started early against Princeton tomorrow, and can hold Firestone and Sullivan in check for the first two chukkers, the Crimson poloists will have a good chance of winning...
Scoring four goals in one chukker, and hitting hard throughout the match the Junior Varsity malletmen kept themselves in the running for first place in the Junior League polo circuit by defeating the Cossacks 9-2 at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday evening...
...individual brilliance, yet seeming to lack the team work expected of them, the Freshman polo team lost to a more steady Jayvee team, 6 1-2 to 8, at the Commonwealth Armory on Saturday evening. Getting an early lead of two points which they maintained during the first two chukkers the first-year men played easily. With persistent driving, however, the upper-classmen scored two goals in the third period, and evened the count in the fourth. In the fifth period, the Freshmen sought to recover their lead, but instead tell further behind. Jumping at the advantage thus opened...