Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that the beetic activities of Commencement Week will be added to this year by a match between the respective polo teams of Harvard and Yale foreshadows an innovation which should put a pleasurable touch of variety in the usual list of entertainment's. What with reunions, baseball games, spreads, and polo matches, the waking hours of the alumnus returning to the shadows of the Yard for the first time since graduation will be fairly well occupied. In fact he may count himself fortunate if he is still able to stand when the whistle blows, figuratively speaking...
From the undergraduate point of view, however, the proposed polo match or game--will be particularly interesting. This is the first year during which polo has had the status of a definitely organized minor sport, and up to date the opportunities' which the University has had of seeing its representatives in action have not been numeral. Assuming that the slight difficulty of obtaining poles can be overcome, the Class Day encounter between the two teams will demonstrate to graduates a new form of intercollegiate sport, and will indicate to undergraduates just what Captain Clark and his players have accomplished during...
...polo game with Yale on the morning of June 18 is the innovation in prospect now as a feature of Commencement Week. Only, the question of supplying ponies for the Blue riders is delaying the final arrangements for the match...
...Olympic games, Harvard and Yale versus Oxford and Cambridge, the international polo matches, golf, lawn tennis, and other games and sports have blazed the trail, but these are exclusive competitions. The time has arrived to organize International competitions in which the working-man and the ordinary citizen who cannot reach the exclusive standard may take part real, thorough-going democratic sport on an adequate scale. It was the spirit of sportsmanship which brought the nations into the war to frustrate the claim of Germany to ride roughshod over the world. The spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all--alone...
...word more. America holds the yachting cup, the polo cup, the horseracing cup and I don't know how many athletic and games championships. She is the largest country. She is the biggest nation. It is, therefore, up to her to take the lead. There can be no possible doubt about that...