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...Optimists' polo team proved too much for the Crimson horsemen at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday night, riding to a 7 1-2 to 6 victory. In the first half minute of play in the opening chukker R. B. Burnett '28 made a spectacular score, and later in the game F. A. Clark '29 added two more goals, but the Crimson team was penalized three goals by reason of six fouls. The Harvard team was given a six goal handicap next week...
...sided game Saturday night at the Commonwealth Armory in Boston the University polo team defeated Yale by the score of 18 1-2 to 3 1-2 before the largest crowed of the season. After the first chukker the Crimson mallet men completely outclassed their traditional rivals...
...Clark '29. Then Baldwin took a pass from Wallop and scored one of Yale's few points. The next period was a rout with Clark, the highest individual scorer of the game, and Captain H. A. White '28 frequently penetrating their rival's goal: In the third chukker, Clark scored-twice, White three times, and H. G. Burnett '29 once, putting the game safely away beyond any doubt. The only Yalo score in the last period of made by Phipps after hitting one of the longest drives of the indoor season...
...wiping out their defeat of last spring. F.A. Clark '29 and R.B. Burnett ocC, starred for the Crimson. The latter scored four of the University goals, while Clark was positively effective on the defense. The University team was ahead from the start, and at the end of the third chukker was leading 5 to 0. Goals scored in the fourth chukker by Clark and J.P. Cotton Jr. '29 clinched the victory...
Starting the game with the one point handicap given the Crimson players in the league games because of their higher rating, the University horsemen soon galloped into the lead and were never headed. Clark started his scoring in the first period and tallied in all but the last chukker. He made the best shot of the night at the start of the third period when he travelled at full speed down the center of the riding ring, hit the ball at about quarter length, and with a powerful sweep, drove it the remaining distance in the air for a score...