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[[Image:autopolo2.png|left|thumb|250px|]] AUTO POLO. '''Technical World Magazine''' in March 1913 described the sport as combining "all the dangers and excitement of a bullfight, a football game, and a ride in an aeroplane." A motorsport invented in the United States, the event had rules and equipment similar to equestrian polo using automobiles instead of horses. Popular at fairs, exhibitions and sports venues across the United States and several areas in Europe from 1911 until the late 1920s; it carried the risk of injury and death to the participants and spectators, and expensive damage to vehicles. | [[Image:autopolo2.png|left|thumb|250px|]] AUTO POLO. '''Technical World Magazine''' in March 1913 described the sport as combining "all the dangers and excitement of a bullfight, a football game, and a ride in an aeroplane." A motorsport invented in the United States, the event had rules and equipment similar to equestrian polo using automobiles instead of horses. Popular at fairs, exhibitions and sports venues across the United States and several areas in Europe from 1911 until the late 1920s; it carried the risk of injury and death to the participants and spectators, and expensive damage to vehicles. | ||
[[Image:1915dap.png|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]Played | [[Image:1915dap.png|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]Played at the [[DUBUQUE ATHLETIC PARK]] from 1915, the contest featured two cars per team, with one man driving each car and another man hanging off the running boards with a mallet, swinging at a basketball-sized sphere. As the ''Paterson Daily Press'' in 1902, it was the cost of constantly replacing battered vehicles that led to players largely abandoning the sport by the late 1920s. | ||
Auto Polo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_d03yVC4z4 | Auto Polo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_d03yVC4z4 | ||
[[Category: Athletics-Auto Polo]] | [[Category: Athletics-Auto Polo]] | ||
Revision as of 19:18, 7 February 2018
AUTO POLO. Technical World Magazine in March 1913 described the sport as combining "all the dangers and excitement of a bullfight, a football game, and a ride in an aeroplane." A motorsport invented in the United States, the event had rules and equipment similar to equestrian polo using automobiles instead of horses. Popular at fairs, exhibitions and sports venues across the United States and several areas in Europe from 1911 until the late 1920s; it carried the risk of injury and death to the participants and spectators, and expensive damage to vehicles.
Played at the DUBUQUE ATHLETIC PARK from 1915, the contest featured two cars per team, with one man driving each car and another man hanging off the running boards with a mallet, swinging at a basketball-sized sphere. As the Paterson Daily Press in 1902, it was the cost of constantly replacing battered vehicles that led to players largely abandoning the sport by the late 1920s.
Auto Polo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_d03yVC4z4