Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With pre-season practice already under way, members of the Harvard Undergraduate Polo Association are pointing for an exhibition game with the Westwood Polo Club on Monday, December 19, in which Coach C. D. Palmer, assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics, will have a chance to test the unusually large squad which has reported for practice. Eleven men are out for the Varsity team, with nine Freshman candidates...
After that, the teams settled down to a game which was sometimes brilliant, strategic football, sometimes a sort of exaggerated water-polo. Harvard's attack, with Jack Crickard running the ball three times out of four, got under way in the second period. Yale stopped it, as it had stopped Princeton's the week before, once in the 13-yd. line and again 2 yd. from the Yale goal. In the third period, Lassiter began to find soft spots in the right side of the Harvard line. In Yale's 55-yd. march to its second touchdown...
...Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
...best schools and colleges in the British Empire and on the Continent. Such a move would have the added advantage of a regular exchange of games with those countries (the rules being identical), a custom which now happily exists in the case of rowing, track games, tennis, polo, and other forms of sport...
...daughter runs off to marry a boy whom she dislikes, in order that she may be able to support her father and step-mother. All is saved in time, however; the son unwittingly makes several million additional dollars for his father, and the girl marries her big, strong polo player, whom she loves...