Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi, Earl Louis Mountbatten, lean, well-tailored Governor General of the agonized Dominion of India, received medical attention for a ligament. He wrenched his arm playing polo...
...Corbin, center of the 1887 Yale team, were flashy side whiskers, and after a few plays of the game with Harvard at the Polo Grounds, he turned to the referee and said, "Mr, referee, this man opposite me is pulling my whiskers." "Marcou probably was," chuckles old Varsity man Francis C. Woodman '88, who had a player opposite him that aimed his fingers at Woodman's eyes every time he had the ball. Any innovation might prove useful in the new game...
Some of the big games were played at the old Polo Grounds, in New York at 115th Street. Some quite large crowds came there to see Harvard play Yale or Princeton, for that was in the days when Ivy League football was the best there...
...gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross themselves. We want to get football off the vaudeville stage [Fordham plays at the Polo Grounds] and back on the campus where it belongs...
Guest Appearance. Nine-goal Winston Guest,* who once helped U.S.-Mexican relations by playing in exhibition matches against Mexico's national polo team, made his 22nd postwar trip to Mexico-this time as president of its first transatlantic airline-Aerovias Guest, S.A. With capital supplied by Guest and his U.S. and Mexican friends, the line has bought one Constellation, hopes to buy two more. Aerovias Guest plans to fly passengers between Mexico City, Lisbon and Madrid (eventually also to Paris and London), via Miami, Bermuda and the Azores...