Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a trip to New Haven for the Eastern Intercollegiate matches against teams from as far south as Washington. Harvard stands a good chance of placing high up in both matches, as a successful conclusion to its second year as an organization and its first year as a minor sport...
Polo is one sport in which the size of the field matters a great deal. At the Armory, with its 300 by 180 foot floor space, there is ample room for the players to manoeuver into position, and the length makes much of the game depend on the speed of the ponies and the skill of the riders. On the New Haven floor any hard-driven shot from one end will travel clear to the other, and for a player accustomed to playing on that floor it is a simple thing to score a long-shot goal. Also, the effect...
...five goals indoors and four outside. He was one of the stars of last year's outstanding Eli trio and teamed with Mott Woolley, who was killed while playing last summer. Corey, a veteran of many years of playing in Long Island tournaments, will start at the number two sport Saturday night, with Chisholm, another Long Island tournaments, will start at the number two spot Saturday night, with Chisholm, another Long Island player, at one, and Willhelm, who gained his experience around Chicago's North Shore, at back...
Major Sargent is sure that he can match the Elis, man for man, in White, Higginson, and Lewis, all three of whom have played their share of the sport. White was born and brought up in Cleveland's Gates Mills, polo center of the Middle West. Higginson spends his summers on horseback while Lewis, a Medfield boy, has been playing the game, as well as the bagpipe, for years...
...compiling this incredible record of victories, Harvard swimming teams have seldom competed before large crowds. There are several reasons for the undergraduate and public neglect of the University's most consistently successful athletes: the newness of swimming as a topnotch intercollegiate sport: conflicting dates with other winter sport contests, and, most important of all, the unfamiliarity of the average fan with the essentials of the sport...