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...University team was dogged by persistent ill luck during the entire game, while Yale seemed to have advantage of all the fortunate breaks. The teams were even in hitting, teamplay, riding-off and hooking. A desperate drive by the Crimson in the last chukker resulted in only one goal. Yale's slight superiority in the last two chukkers really won the victory. The Summary: YALE HARVARD Baldwin. No. 3 No. 1. R. Nicholas Mills. No. 2 No. 2. Gerry Horter, Iglehart, back back, F. Nicholas...
...Harvard team put up a good battle until the last two periods, when Rodgers and Beebe, of West Point, broke through the Crimson defense to score heavily. In the final chukker the Army team clinched the victory by outriding and outplaying their opponents. This is Harvard's second game of the season and its first defeat...
...first chukker. Jenkins made two goals while Gerry accounted for one. But outside of this spurt in the opening chukker the Crimson trio was not up to its usual good team work and brilliant individual plays that have featured its previous contests Captain Gerry was plainly not playing the excellent polo of which he is capable...
Critics had predicted a runaway for the Americans. This did not happen. Through the first half, and until the seventh chukker. the Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods...
...most exciting moment for the Crimson came in the fourth chukker, when W. F. Luton '32, playing No. 2, scored after four minutes of play; later he followed this up with another goal, and Captain H. I. Nicholas '31 scored the Crimson's final point in the same period. During this time, the Harvard team showed its best teamwork of the afternoon. The Army had, however, already secured a safe lead, and also counted three goals as the Crimson was doing its only scoring...