Word: chukkers
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...Aikens had to start out against the Old Oaks, junior champions in 1928, a team commanded by hard-riding Oldster Howard S. Borden with able young Michael Phipps at No. 1. They rode through to a 10-to-7 victory after trailing by two goals in the third chukker. Then they had to play the Greentrees. After four chukkers they were behind seven goals...
...Cotton '29 scored once in the second and again in the fourth chukker, but except for these two moments the game was all Blue...
...game, played from scratch, was hotly contested throughout but Harvard took a commanding lead in the first chukker and never relinquished it. It was in the first and third chukkers that the Crimson riders concentrated their attack, scoring four and one-half and five goals in these chukkers respectively. The pace was continually increasing during the game which was one of the best college polo exhibitions seen in New York. Credit is due the Yale riders who, because of illnesss of their own horses, were forced to play on borrowed mounts...
...last chukker was filled with furious riding. Caswell of the Battery A team started things with a beautiful full-stroke goal made at top speed. W. F. Luton '32 soon retaliated with a counter for the Crimson, but Read and Norton put the game on ice for the Gunners with two more scores...
...which was made by the Harvard second team a month ago though this total was ultimately cut down to 32 by the deduction of two half-points for fouls by A. Clark '29. The University team though handicapped by 11 points, led by the end of second chukker...