Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the gay days of Manchuria and Munich, when the local R.O.T.C. was still preparing its future cavalry officers with the aid of a band of sturdy polo ponies, Harvard University was possessed of a glorious polo team. Organized as the undergraduate Polo Association the college poloists registered slashing triumphs over Williams, Princeton, and Cornell, and usually climaxed their season with a match against Yale before a cheering throng in Chicago...
Some of the polo players even brought their own mounts with them and stabled them amongst the R.O.T.C. ponies. But that was before the war, and the rise of income tax, the mechanized army and the common...
...while last week, it looked as though big time polo were coming back to Cambridge. Then Bill Bingham spoke up, some leading philanthropists clammed up, and the zip of closing wallets was heard throughout the land...
Just plain polo has been back for nearly a year now, but the army polo ponies, the convenient stables, and the well-to-do horse owner aren't coming back. So the polo team became an "away" club, dependent on horses provided by its opponents and hopelessly lacking in local practice facilities...
Then there appeared a remarkable individual, Clarence Alexander Bissell. (Yale '15), who was interested in college polo but more interested in international polo. Harvard and Yale seemed to him, to be the logical college teams to represent America so up to Cambridge came Bissell...