Word: teamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...award, given by former undergraduate managers, honors Weiland--who steered the young team to a third-place finish in his 19th season. Ware and Otness, linemates and penalty killers, received the plaque for their "aggressive and spirited play, and selfless contribution to the total team effort...
...team rented some untrained local horses and attempted to play on them. Faced with the prospect of dodging swinging mallets and each other, the rented ponies panicked. One or two survived several practices before actively resisting, but an alternative had to be found. "Beg, borrow, or steal," said President Hibberd V. B. Kline III '69, an aristocrat in the old tradition...
Coached by Mike Andrews of the Myopia Hunt Club, the team pulled itself together. As riding and hitting skill improved, cries of "Which goal are we hitting for?" and "Who's on my team?" became fewer, and the melees became games...
...effort to reduce the number of spills, the team borrowed a tradition from Yale--if a player falls during a game, he must buy the team a case of beer...
Injuries to team members so far have been slight, but this gentlemen's sport has had its share of fatalities. When a thousand pounds of horse and rider are accelerating at ten feet per second per second, contact tends to be unpleasant...