Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Postwar statistics show that no longer does one in every thousand Ivy League students own a string of spirited mounts, but a scattered number still have a yen for polo. Last November at an Adams House parley 35 prospective players decided that the time had come to revive the game started by Teddy Roosevelt at Harvard back...
Although it has no horses, no H.A.A. support, and no coach, the Crimson polo team in now on a playing basis, and last Saturday galloped through its first match of the new era. Following the pattern of companion Harvard teams it succumbed to a fully-equipped and experienced Yale squad by a forbidding 23 to 4 margin...
...Yale the polo picture has returned to normal. The Elis, a notable exception to the 1 in a 100 statistical survey, have a stable of horses, all privately-owned, an indoor polo field across the street from the Bowl, and a coach. Clad in white breeches and blue-and-white jerseys, the Yalies charged into the semifinals of the recently-revived Eastern Intercollegiate Polo League by beating the Crimson team. To play the game, the Harvard team traveled to New Haven and played on Yale's horses with Yale's equipment...
...postwar organizers, has scheduled three more games: "We play Norwich on their mounts on March 20 and have a return match with Yale on the 27th," Bennett said yesterday. A tentative match with Williams is set for next spring on the ponies they borrow from the Pittsfield polo club. "That's the kind of arrangement we'd like to make around this area," he added...
About the only practice the polo team gets at present is a canter on a riding academy animal or a survey of the feats and tactics of the powerful Crimson polo aggregations of old. But plans are under consideration to build an indoor cage to practice in. Under this scheme the player sits astride a wooden horse and bangs the ball against the sloping sides of the enclosure, which, via gravity, return the pellet for another clout...