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...such a scene last Saturday the Harvard croquet team broke a three-year Yale win streak to gain a 10-4 victory in the United States Croquet Association Tournament...

Author: By Alice S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Croquet Wins National Title | 10/6/1992 | See Source »

...championship finals were held in Southampton, Long Island, N.Y., as a culmination to the 1991-92 croquet season...

Author: By Alice S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Croquet Wins National Title | 10/6/1992 | See Source »

...Signet also enjoys a longstanding relationship with Yale University's Elizabethan Society. The two groups host parties for one another following the Harvard-Yale football game and compete in a croquet match each year...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inside the Signet Society | 3/18/1992 | See Source »

...criticizes the all-male final clubs will have a hard time finding a good game of croquet...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...George S. Kaufman led to marathon grudge matches on the producer's courts. Woollcott once said, "My doctor forbids me to play unless I win." He played such a vicious game that his friends made a film in which he was burned at the stake for kicking his croquet partner. When Goldwyn died, his wife, who had built the courts as a present to her husband after he could no longer play golf, turned off the water supply. Two days later, says Lufkin, the court was gone and a way of life ended. But that was then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Windsor, California Such Splendor On the Grass | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

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