Word: polo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sports are held in the famous "Tournament Park," acquired several years ago by the city of Pasadena. In this is the finest football field in Southern California and the only turf field. Here for many years winning teams from all sections of the world struggled in championship polo games the afternoon after the Pageant of Flowers, and the sport side of the festival has never been lost sight...
...Polo Now Replaced by Football...
Football was now displaced polo as the great sport which attracts the crowds to the pageant. Although games between eastern and western teams have been held in various parts of the country, it was not until the New Year's festival of 1916 that the management first carried out the plan of having a football game in Pasadena between the best players of West and East. In that year the University of Washington defeated Brown by a 14 to 0 score, and the year after Oregon and Pennsylvania met and the former won by the same score...
Prior to 1900 Harvard did not meet Yale in any of these sports although both universities had established teams a few years before. The first wrestling meet was in 1907, while water polo and swimming did not commence until two years later...
Yale has also had the advantage in swimming, winning both the dual meets in this branch of sport, and twice winning the open Intercollegiate Meet. At water polo, the University has only once opposed Yale but in that game she was successful. Yale has also come out ahead in the few dual wrestling meets that have been held, while in the Inter-collegiates in which both universities have competed Yale has every time amassed the greater score...