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Zack Anderson and David Yearsley never played the sport before they came to Harvard...
Croquet at the competitive level is very different from its backyard counterpart, the version everybody plays on their grandmother's lawn on the Fourth of July. Yearsley compares it to a "big version of billiards," while Anderson feels it is more "a combination of fishing and equestrian events...
...Harvard final pitted Anderson and Yearsley against senior Captain Peter Finch and his partner, David Lamarre...
Both Anderson and Yearsley "pegged out," or completed the two circuits of the course and hit the peg before the time limit expired, a highly unusual event in collegiate action...
...Yearsley, "the Poetical Milk-Woman of Bristol," who succeeded the "Poetic Washerwoman of Peterfield." While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote. The Blue-stocking Club rechristened her "Lactilla." No lady, Lactilla too had to be dropped...