Word: farma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Farman-Farma hopes to field an outdoor team of four seasoned, experienced players, he said that last Wednesday's meeting--which lured nine prospective members, including six experienced polo players--was encouraging. "We're looking to be the best," he said, adding that the club hopes to begin competing with schools such as Yale and Cornell in two weeks...
...Saturday at the Myopia Hunt Club, a stable and sports facility in Hamilton, Mass., where the club will rent its horses. Peter F. Poor, a Myopia member and 20 year poto veteran, has agreed to coach the tem and provide intruction beginners once the team is established, said Farman-Farma...
...Farman-Farma said his uncle died in a polo accident but he remains enthusiastic about the sport. Poor said, "The danger attract people rather than scares them away...
...Polo originated in the Himalayas but became known as the sport of Persian kings," explained Charles L. Grandpierre '86, co-founder of the club and 1981 French National Champion. Farman-Farma added that it was common for Afghan of Pakistani tribes to play with animal skulls-needless to say those game were rough. When the British colonized the Middle East and India, they brought polo with them and made it the exclusive domain of the moneyed aristocracy, he said...
Moore she raised the issue of Harvard's unique coed position in polo. Schools such as Yale, U.V.A., Army and Navy--the forces to be reckoned with in intercollegiate polo--have separate men's and women's teams. But, Farman-Farma said he intends to continue Harvard's sex-blind tradition...