Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since in water polo the most effective way to keep opponents from scoring goals is to hold them under water, the apparent purpose of the players is to drown each other. Rules do not limit the length of time a player may be held under water if he holds the ball or is within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly...
...Ruddy Sr. is completely bald, massive as a seal, mottled as though he had been under water for years. Actually, his underwater record is only 3 min. 19 sec. He claims that, in his lifetime of water polo, he never gave a "busy signal." He attributes his family's success to a diet prescribed by Mrs. Ruddy, no smoking or drinking by any Ruddy, the fact that the Ruddys never overdo. That N. Y. A. C. water polo teams, since the game was imported by an Englishman named Fred Wells in 1885, have been the best...
...alternative, the sport levy of $10 on every undergraduate. A further development of the solution to this problem was suggested by an undergraduate who proposed the seven-point program which favored not only the $10 levy but also "the abolition of H.A.A. support for all Jayvee teams and for polo, fencing, lacrosse, and possibly soccer." This undergraduate is further quoted as saying that "he feels that these sports are an acquired taste since there is little training in secondary schools, and so could be dispensed with." If soccer is to appear on this list, I feel that many...
...Abolition of H.A.A. support for all Jayvee teams, and for polo, fencing, lacrosse, and possibly soccer. (He feels that these sports are an acquired taste since there is little training in secondary schools, and so could be dispensed with...
...defeating the Crimson riders fourteen to one in a semi-final match at Squadron A, in Manhattan, Saturday, a hard riding Yale polo team won the right to compete in the finals of the National Intercollegiate Indoor Polo Championship, to be held Saturday...