Word: polos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Summer School officials express "grave concern" over the enrollment of only 21 people at the school. Ex-freshman dean and new Summer School director F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37 announces that he hopes to rescue the school with the addition of a rigorous program in polo. "I see this as a democratic program well suited to the school's populist tradition," von Stade explains...
...team was trounced by the powerful Ryderbrook Polo Club on Saturday night, 22-3. Griffen, Tanner and Tad Montross each scored. On Sunday, the squad scrimmaged informally with the Sugarbush Polo Club...
...Harvard polo team outplayed a disciplined Norwich University squad for the final three chukkers but never recovered from the disastrous first one and finally succumbed 13-9. Friday night in Vermont...
...does. Growing up in Somerville, N.J., Flicka was a tomboy. Horses were a special passion, and her nickname came from her fondness for the popular novel about a horse, My Friend Flicka. Her father, who was killed in action in World War II, came from a family of polo players. Her mother traces her ancestry back to Jonathan Trumbull, an early governor of Connecticut. At one point after she was widowed, her mother ran a combination restaurant and catering service with the help of Flicka and her brother. Flicka now easily throws together an impromptu meal for dozens of friends...
Next weekend, the squad travels to Vermont for a series of matches hosted by Norwich University. The team will not have to ride their horses to the north country because in college polo the host team provides the visitors with their mounts...