Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Polo Club, despite a determined effort, lost to league-leading University of Connecticut, 20-14, Saturday night in a bruising match at the Flying Horse Stables in Hamilton, Mass...
Collegiate polo is played indoors in an arena similar to a hockey rink, with the two goals 8 ft. by 10 ft. targets painted on the walls at either...
...final period, the Crimson began a rally--called a chukker action by polo fans--but were still down by 6 when the game ended...
Connections were Niven's genius. They led him to Hollywood in 1934, found him room and board with Loretta Young's mother, they got him a seven-year contract with Sam Goldwyn-as well as a chance to play polo with Darryl Zanuck even before he had a speaking part...
Niven's description of that polo match is one of the better "Zanuck-dotes." At one point, the story goes, Niven was racing Zanuck for the ball. Suddenly his horse stretched ahead, sank his teeth into the seat of Zanuck's breeches and held on. Niven made a wild swing at the ball but missed. Next thing he knew his stick was clamped beneath the tail of Zanuck's pony. Attached tooth and tail, the "horrible triangle" galloped past the stands. "I was not," Niven reports soberly, "invited to play polo with Zanuck again...