Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regulation affecting the managership of the Polo team announced yesterday by manager F. H. Gade '31 states that hereafter the office of Polo manager must be held by a man, in his Junior year. This ruling was made, due to the fact that former managers have found difficulty in attending to both their studies and managerial duties...
Other important announcements were that this year's polo captain will be elected on November 1, and that for the first time in polo history there will be a Freshman managerial competition. At the end of six weeks, when the indoor season begins, a Freshman manager and first assistant manager will be chosen, one of whom will become University Polo team manager after a competition in his Sophmore year. All candidates for this competition should report at 2 o'clock either today or tomorrow at the Army stables on Soldiers Field...
...been announced that managers of the polo team are to be chosen in future from candidates of the Junior class, since it has been found that seniors are generally too busy, with divisional examinations in prospect, to afford as much time to managerial duties as is desirable. It is pointed out also that under the new system the manager in office will be in a position always to receive valuable aid and advice from an experienced predecessor who will be on hand to help him. These appear to be the chief reasons advanced to explain this innovation in managerial policy...
Harriman, 41, has only recently become a name in polo. The father of William Averell Harriman made millions of dollars in the railroad business and died before his eldest son went to Yale. With the $10,000,000 which he received with his majority, William Averell Harriman proceeded to have a good time in the shipping industry. This, he asserted to be ". . . the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the United States. . . ." Besides shipping, his financial attachments include railroads, banking, the American Railway Express Co., Wright Aeronautical Corporation, the American Russian Chamber of Commerce...
...polo player Harriman is the complete opposite of Lewis Lacey, the Argentine back, now one of the three active ten goal men in the world and perhaps as great a player as famed, retired Devereaux Milburn...