Word: polos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Deangelis, the Yale men’s coach, sidles up to Crocker, who stalks about the arena after the game. “He’s the best college polo player right...
...when the game begins later that day, Crocker grips the arena net in rapt attention. If you close your eyes and simply listen, you can get a good idea of what’s happening in the polo match: the light pattering of pony feet as they scamper around a throw-in, the thunderous stampeding down the field when everyone is chasing a ball that’s strayed far ahead, or the clanking of mallets and buckling of side boards against horse flesh when the ball falls into the corners...
...than usual. “The cards are really stacked against us. Cornell and UConn, they’ve got the facilities, the program,” Crocker says. In Harvard’s club, “there’s only one [player] that had any previous polo experience, which is a huge handicap against all the other teams we’re playing because they attract and recruit young players that come to play polo and have played before...
...year, several interscholastic players from all over the world—including one from Singapore that Crocker especially has his eyes on—have expressed interest in the club. If he were to have a say in the selection between two very similar applicants—one with polo experience, the other without—it could yield unimaginable gains for the Harvard team, Crocker says...
...aspect of polo, even the losses, comes to define the sport as a whole. The feelings that come while you’re on top of that horse are layered—and they compound, Scalise says. The thrill of being taken from one end of the field to another in seconds, the feeling of hot horse skin underneath white jeans, the vulnerability of depending on another living thing besides oneself—in the end, losing doesn’t really seem to matter all that much, and it would be difficult to not see other players...