Word: fields
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...Islanders play a mean brand of hockey, no question about it, but they couldn't do much against the Crimson stickmen--field hockey stick men, that is. The Harvard men's field hockey club has been doing well without skates--or even kilts--quietly and unobtrusively for the past four years, and this weekend they proved just how well they do by tying a visiting all-Caribbean team from New York, the "Islanders," that boasts three Olympic team players...
Even fewer people are aware of the fact that field hockey ranks as the third most popular sport in the world, right behind soccer and basketball. And not just for vigorous, pony-tailed, prep school girls...
Harvard's men's field hockey club, founded by a Dutch student named Felix Twaalhnback in 1976, represents one the University's genuine instances of diversity...
Team captain Ying Dat Ho, a Malaysian native who has played field hockey for as long as he can remember, admits that such diversity also has a few drawbacks, for the club has to encorporate a melting pot of styles...
...bull pen, on the other hand, proved incapable of stemming the Phillies' late-innings tide. To add insult to ineffectiveness, Kansas City's bull pen was turned into a menagerie in the final game. Philadelphia's Finest stored police dogs in the Royals' left-field enclosure, and Reliever Marty Pattin had to ease his way past a posse of horses when he came on to pitch in the fifth inning. Said Pattin: "I thought we had a zoo out there. The dogs were excited by the crowd, and they were barking and carrying on. When...