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...watch him, he’s making three times the plays as anyone else, and he’s never rattled,” says Crocker, who has few reservations about extolling Nick’s prowess on the field. Nick is “clearly” the best player on the team, “obviously” the exceptional one, and the “advantage” Harvard has over other schools...
...Nick has taken the Harvard Polo Club quite far in just its first formal year of activity. “The Great Leap Forward,” Crocker calls this past season—presumably excepting the famine and millions of deaths that followed the Maoist version. After nearly a century of failing to gain a foothold at Harvard, the club has been able to practice with its own horses in its own practice facility this past season, generating the first official women’s team and a threefold increase in the number of players in just a year...
...Under the coaching of Crocker and wife Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, most of the players have been transformed from inexperienced riders to mallet-waving, galloping fiends. And with only three players per lineup on the field during an intercollegiate game, having even one player as experienced as Nick has made the national championships a genuine possibility this year for the young team. But for that very same reason, Nick’s success is a constant bleak reminder of how much the club will lose next season...
...just looking ahead and thinking, ‘uh Jesus.’ They’re really enthusiastic, they can learn, definitely—but they need somebody they can grow around, somebody to feed off of,” Crocker says. “We’ll have an inevitable setback for a year or two, until we start developing one or two players with more game experience...
...Crocker, the issue is finding talent rather than retaining it. “It’s a very narcotic sport,” Crocker says. “There are very few people who get a little taste of it who don’t want more...