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ND-Nationalpp Copy 1.Indd see. An indoor match lasts only four chukkers; it also tends, with less space to maneuver, to see horses and mallets col- liding more often. Nick Snow compares polo to “ice hockey on horses”—but, played at a gallop, it’s even faster. The University of Virginia, amid horse country, boasts the country’s largest polo Several riders program, but Cornell (where it is a varsity pursue a flying polo sport with a roster of 30 to 40) and Yale ball (upper left). also maintain stables and arenas. At col- lege matches, the home team provides the practicing the strokes while dismounted, rider, the consequences can be severe. horses for both sides. “Splitting strings” and even occasional instances of bicycle Though riders need to be in top condi- ensures that there is no mount advantage polo, there’s no getting around the equine tion, “Players think that the ponies are in the college game—unlike outdoor polo, factor. A strong male player can whack a the best athletes out there,” Snow says. where players bring their own thorough- polo ball 150 yards because he borrows so “And riding them weeds out the Ralph breds. “In an arena, a good player can get much momentum from his mount. The Lauren glamour factor pretty quickly. along even with a bad horse,” Crocker ponies are also what make the game so You’ve got to love horses to do this.” Snow explains, “but outdoors, at the top dangerous—if a galloping horse falls on a craig lambert levels, horses matter.” Though it doesn’t apply to college polo, the sport’s handicap system provides an- ALUMNI other measure of parity. Based on their performances, the sport rates players in “goals” from -2 to +10. It’s a rough estimate of how many goals that player might con- The Socially tribute to a team’s score. A “20-goal” match means that the sum of the players’ ratings on each team cannot exceed 20 Acceptable Bohemian goals. Few players rank above +3; even Nick Snow, a lifelong player and one of the Tom Rush’s charmed life in folk music strongest riders in college polo, has only a daniel gewertz three-goal rating. Four-goal players are by mostly pros. USPA numbers show that 87 ickets are percent of players are rated at one goal or a sti≠ $40 apiece, Tom Rush less, and there are only about a dozen 10- but the Sit ’n’ Bull Pub in May- in 1966 goal players in the world: currently, they nard, Massachusetts, is full. all hail from Argentina, the country that Folksinger Tom Rush ’63 breeds the best ponies and produces the Tstands center stage, halfway between a most top players. (As many as 30,000 or barroom dartboard and a string of irides- 40,000 spectators turn out at Palermo cent red plastic peppers. The Sit ’n’ Bull Polo Grounds in downtown Buenos Aires looks like a classic roadhouse, certainly a for the finals of the Argentine Open, the long aesthetic distance from his cele- world’s top tournament, which normally brated, sold-out Boston Symphony Hall sees several 40-goal teams entered.) concerts of the 1980s. For Harvard’s polo club, the more mun- But Rush is equally comfortable in any dane challenge is housing ponies. “It setting he chooses. He begins his solo would be quite possible to get a bunch of show with a song he first recorded 45 years veteran horses donated, along with a ago, in 1962, while still an undergraduate: truck and trailer,” says Crocker Snow. “San Francisco Bay Blues.” Rush then de- “But there’s no natural place to keep them, lights the audience with a tale about inter- along with a facility to practice and play.” viewing the writer of the song, Jesse “The tion and a full description of Fuller’s “fot- As a result, the team plays only “away” Lone Cat” Fuller, a world-class eccentric della,” a self-invented foot-percussion in- matches, riding mounts provided by their folk-bluesman, back in the days of Rush’s strument shaped like a stove. opponents. WHRB folk-music radio show at Harvard. Storytelling has always been essential And although there are foot mallets, for The story comes replete with a fond imita- to the art and charm of Tom Rush. When www.haa.harvard.edu Photograph courtesy of Tom Rush JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL a California journalist recently ques- show. No one was looking for a career.” so highly in folk music: a tradition he tioned the veracity of some of the tales Well, not quite no one. By the time studied, in fact, at Harvard College. Rush tells in concert, he e-mailed the fel- Rush was 21, he was already known in low to protest. “My stories are not just Boston folk circles as “the guy with the Born in 1941, Rush grew up in and true—they’re better than true…having album.” “It was strange,” he recalled. “At around St. Paul’s Preparatory School in been polished (not unlike diamonds) in the time, nobody else had an album out. Concord, New Hampshire, where his fa- the tumbler of time.” Nobody. And then I did.” ther taught mathematics. Later, he at- How did it happen? “A fellow had come tended the Groton School. Both his father Though he never made the Top 40 up to me at a co≠eehouse,” Rush said. “He and grandfather were Harvard alumni, pop-album charts, Rush has often been had a tape recorder and a microphone and and his dad convinced him to attend Har- called the man who ushered in the 1970s he just asked me if I wanted to make a live vard. “I blew a lot of opportunities at singer-songwriter folk-pop movement in record. I said all right. That was At the Uni- Harvard,” he admitted. “I wasn’t sure why America. He’s also the best-known folk- corn. About 600 copies were pressed. It I was there. Despite the fact that I had singer ever to graduate from Harvard wasn’t a very good record, but somehow, grown up at one preparatory school and College, and, yes, he is well aware of the it made me legitimate.” gone to another, I showed up at Harvard incongruity of that achievement. “Cam- Today, original copies of that primi- totally unprepared for academic life. I was bridge preppies in the ’60s really should tively recorded album sell for up to $500 ba±ed by assignments that expected me not have been singing songs about pick- apiece on eBay. And although Rush has to write my own thoughts.” By 1961, the folk-music co≠eehouse had become his real classroom. “I went around to the [local] hootenanny nights, at first to recruit talent for my WHRB radio show,” Rush recalled. “I discovered you could get in free if you had a guitar. Then I discovered that you could get in free if you just had a guitar case—so I’d put a six-pack in my case. One night, at The Golden Vanity, the main act canceled, Tom Rush so I was immediately hired to do a whole today show! I only had beer in my guitar case that night, so I had to borrow a guitar.” Rush’s class work didn’t progress as serendipitously. “I didn’t really have a goal,” he explained. “Then I took a year o≠, traveled around, played gigs, visited friends. Once I came back to Harvard, I was more focused. I finally had a goal.” His shaggy white mustache began curling around a small, wry smile. “My goal was to get a diploma.” ing cotton and how tough it was working made many better albums in the ensuing In fact, Rush was learning as much as he in the coal mines,” Rush said recently 45 years, he still sells downloads of the could about world folklore and the oral over lunch at a Cambridge restaurant. Unicorn Co≠eehouse record on his busy tradition of narrative poetry, the basis of “Yet we were sincerely in love with the website, www.tomrush.com. “Having a the folk music he adored. A class on music. The sons and grandsons of the old record in 1962 was, apparently, a good ca- Homer with his favorite teacher, Albert blues guys were trying to get as far away reer move,” Rush said, “though I hadn’t Lord, professor of Slavic and comparative from the blues as possible, to get as far thought of that in advance.” literature, proved especially memorable. away from the echoes of slavery and This little tale of his beginnings as a “Going into folk music as a profession poverty. Young white college kids, like musician in Cambridge contains so much right after getting a Harvard diploma me, were the ones basically keeping the that reflects Rush’s perennial charm, on- took a lot of nerve in 1964,” says Betsy Sig- blues afloat. stage and o≠: the self-deprecating tone, gins, who managed New England’s essen- “The Cambridge-Boston folk scene in the o≠hand grace, and his lifelong grati- tial folk-music venue, Harvard Square’s the early ’60s was an amateur scene in the tude for and dependence on accident, Club 47, in the mid 1960s. (She has re- best sense of the word,” Rush added. “The timing, and luck. turned to her first love in recent years as ambition was only to make enough money The story of “lucky Tom” might be an the executive director of Club 47’s de- to buy a six-pack for the party after the example of the oral tradition Rush values scendant, Club Passim.) “Tom was lucky 88 November - December 2007 Photograph by Henry Diltz enough to come from an elite back- ground,” she says, “and in his case that al- lowed him to be comfortable in every community he entered.” The luck continued throughout the decade: Paul Rothchild became a close friend.
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