Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd which would fill the new Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and the Yale Bowl, built as one huge amphitheatre, assembled to watch the final football game for the Association Cup at Wembley Stadium, London. The match, between the Bolton Wanderers and the West Ham United, was equivalent to a final World's Series game in America. The King was present...
Yale to meet Cornell in the fits match for the R. O. T. C. intercollegiate polo Championship of the East at Fort Hamilton Governor's islands N. Y., this afternoon. The winner this match will meet on next Thursday the victor of the Harvard Norwich match on Tuesday. Although both Yale and Corner will enter the contest today with no handicap, Yale is favored to win as it has had slightly more experience and at the same time, has beaten the Pennsylvania Military College 6 to 4, white Cornell lost to the same team by the score...
...Administrative Board of the University has granted permission to the R. O. T. C. polo team to go to Brooklyn, New York, to take part in the intercollegiate R. O. T. C. polo championships there beginning on May 4. The tournament, which will be held at Fort Hamilton and will include teams from eight of the eastern colleges, will be under the auspices of the Second Corps Area of the United States Army and will be directly supervised by Lieutenant-General Robert Lee Bullard...
...Polo, as a sport rather than a spectacle, is becoming increasingly popular in America, largely through the interest of the Government in the Officers' Training Corps units at the universities. Ordinarily, polo is too expensive a pastime for any but millionaires and army officers. But with horses and expert instruction furnished by a fostering War Department, the members at colleges with mounted units have been eager to try their skill...
...championship team, and Yale is not far behind. The big meet to be held in Brooklyn this week will give the game an added impetus which is now hardly necessary for its continued success. At the same time, it should be remembered that the Government is not supporting polo ponies all over the country to make a Roman holiday for the colleges. The object is to stimulate riding in the Training Corps units; to develop athletic skill in the future officers, to teach team-work and coordination,-in fact, to accomplish what sports are everywhere intended to accomplish. Championship teams...