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Sharp, clean hitting characterized the hard-fought tie game between the Harvard Varsity and the Westwood teams in the opening match of the indoor polo season at the Commonwealth armory Saturday night. One of the most exciting exhibitions the armory has witnessed in years, it was played neck and neck to the last going. For six chukkers the Crimson riders staved off the determined attacks of Clark, formerly on a crack Harvard team, Palmer, present Harvard coach, and Phillips, mainly through the consistent scoring or Captain F. S. Nicholas '33. Just as the timer's bell sounded...
...Freshman team lifted a victory easily out of grasp of the 51st brigade team, which did not seem to click during the contest. Peter Jay and E. H. Gerry starred for the Freshmen, and the final chukker ended, the yearlings leading the army 8 1-2 to 4. HARVARD WESTWOOD McGuckin. No. 1 No. 1. Clark Davis, No. 2 No. 2. Phillips Nicholas, back back Palmer (Dillingham...
After three weeks of intensive training under its new coach, Lieutenant Charles Palmer, the Varsity Pole Team commences its indoor season at the Commonwealth Armory next Saturday night in a match against a strong Westwood team. The Harvard team will miss the brilliant playing of the veteran from Honolulu, Lowell Dillingham '34. However the bout on Saturday night is an exhibition match, and will neither harm nor aid the standing of either team. Dillingham is expected to be back on the team in time to play in the first official league game against the 110th Cavalry on January...
Palmer plays on the Westwood team; but inasmuch as he has had to spend almost all his time in whipping together the Harvard team, he has had no opportunity to practice with his teammates. Coach Palmer has a theory of his own in training his men. Instead of instructing his squad from an impersonal stand, he has secured Dillingham and another player not on the squad, and thus forming his own team, he plays the Varsity, and finds that in the actual tangling of mallets with them, he is able to give them valuable assistance...
With pre-season practice already under way, members of the Harvard Undergraduate Polo Association are pointing for an exhibition game with the Westwood Polo Club on Monday, December 19, in which Coach C. D. Palmer, assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics, will have a chance to test the unusually large squad which has reported for practice. Eleven men are out for the Varsity team, with nine Freshman candidates...