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...calls this past season—presumably excepting the famine and millions of deaths that followed the Maoist version. After nearly a century of failing to gain a foothold at Harvard, the club has been able to practice with its own horses in its own practice facility this past season, generating the first official women’s team and a threefold increase in the number of players in just a year...
...intercollegiate game, having even one player as experienced as Nick has made the national championships a genuine possibility this year for the young team. But for that very same reason, Nick’s success is a constant bleak reminder of how much the club will lose next season...
...Without its own equestrian center on campus, the polo team drives to a rented barn at the Canter Brook Equestrian Center in Hamilton for four practices a week throughout its October to April season. The long drives to practices and games are hallowed arenas for team bonding, whether players are partaking from the same gourd of green goop or scoping highways for options other than Nick’s Famous Roast Beef. “I think I’m getting the chicken parm’, baby,” Snow says. The three men consider other possibilities...
...occupied by Harvard’s 14 “polo ponies.” Of five donated to Harvard, three are gifts from actor and polo fan Tommy Lee Jones ’69; the rest are privately owned, typically older horses lent to the team for the season. Though a school like Cornell boasts a 30-horse string, Harvard’s 14 are better than nothing (what the team had last year), and if proper arrangements with outside interests are made, the team may see double the number of ponies next fall, according to Crocker...
...Nick, who stopped playing varsity hockey mid-way through sophomore year to participate in the polo club’s inaugural season, feels that he has found his calling in a sport where he has not only become the face of a polo dynasty, but the field’s greatest intercollegiate talent and proof of professional-level ability in a college sport that continues to seek greater recognition from schools across the country...