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             the players on the team is subtracted from that of the
             opposition. Any difference is then awarded to the lower
             rated side in goals on the scoreboard.
             Possibly the oldest team sport, polo's genesis is lost
             to the eye of history. An Asiatic game, polo was first
             played on a barren campground by nomadic warriors over two
             thousand years ago Valuable for training Cavalry, the game
             was played from Constantinople to Japan by the Middle Ages.
             Known in the East as the Game of Kings, Tamer lane's polo
             grounds can still be seen in Samarkand. British tea planters
             in India witnessed the game in the early 1800's but it was
             the British Cavalry drew up the earliest rules and by the
             1869's the game was well established in England. James
             Gordon Bennett, a noted American publisher, balloonist, and
             adventurer, was captivated by the sport and brought it to
             New York in 1876 where it caught on immediately. Within ten
             years, there were major clubs all over the east, including
             Newport and Long Island. Over the next 50 years, polo
             achieved extraordinary popularity in the United States. By
             the 1930's polo was in the midst of a Golden Age it was an
             Olympic sport and crowds in excess of 30,000 regularly
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