Word: chukker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...socialite crowd (20,000) in Meadow Brook's robin's-egg blue stands was still shouting when the teams rode out for the last chukker. West was still flabbergasted, East too tired to do much more than defend its goal. Score: East 10. West...
...score when the seventh chukker started was West 8, East 4. East got the ball at the throwin. Tall Winston Guest sent a long pass to Mills for a goal. A moment later he made the longest hit of the game (100 yd.) to Phipps, who scored with a backhand. Post a minute later scored on a free shot after a foul. Guest got the ball at the next throwin, took it down the field, tied the score at 8-all. Before the West could recover from its surprise, Phipps had scored two more goals and the period was over...
...their score to a mere half point, the Princeton score was again raised by a long shot from Sullivan. Lowell Dillingham, Harvard No. 2, sent in the first goal of the evening for his team, which was soon followed by a tally by Captain Davis to end the first chukker 2 to 11-2 in favor of the Cambridge contingent...
...second chukker opened with Tommy Davis scoring again for the Crimson and a fast shot by Davey, Princeton No. 2, to add to the excitement of the ding dong scoring. Harvard's galloping No. 1 then scored, and the number on the score board again went up under the Harvard plate with a backhander by Davis to end the half 4-3 with Harvard on the long end of the scoring...
...second half took time to warm up, but Al Dillingham's shots started clicking to score another Harvard goal. In the last chukker, the doughty No. 1 made a final score through a six-man scrimmage to end the game...