Word: chukker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-time Yale led 5 to 4 with the third chukker providing several spectacular goals. High scorer for the Crimson in the fast-riding duel was Skiddy von Stade with four goals...
After holding its opponents to a single point in the opening chukker, the Harvard poloists fell behind 8-2 at the half. F. Skiddy Von Stade, Jr '38 led the visiting scorers with four goals, while Frederick Ayer. Jr. '37 contributed two, and A. Townsend Winmill...
...Crimson allowed the Whips a four-goal handicap but practically wiped it out by the end of the second chukker. In the third they went on to pile up the points which proved the margin of victory. Alan Winmill scored four goals for the Crimson and Fred Ayer, two. Harvey was high scorer for Wilkes-Barre with six goals...
...bred so big and speedy that poloists have almost discarded the term "ponies." Main reason for Argentina's victory last week was the fact that the Argentine mounts, which are likely to bring record prices after the series, were not only better but more numerous. After the fourth chukker, when the score was tied at 8-all, the U. S. team-Bostwick, Balding. Hitchcock, Whitney-began, as is customary, to use ponies that had already played a chukker. The Argentines-Duggan, Cavanagh, Gazzotti, Andrada-used fresh ones throughout the second half...
...goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last chukker, with the score 7-to-6 for the U. S., Hurlingham's packed stands prayed for a tying goal. Instead, Pedley nursed the ball through England's goal posts. Two minutes later chukker, game and series ended...