On Oct. 11, The Yale men’s polo team kicked off their fall season with a historic first match against Morehouse College, the first polo team at a historically Black college and university, or HBCU, in the United States.
After two years of discussions between both college clubs, the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale and other sponsoring organizations, Calaway Swanson ’25 and Morehouse Polo President Tyrsten Williams organized the first match between the teams. Organizers hope this event will become an annual tradition.
“One of Morehouse polo’s goals is to inspire other HBCUs and people of color to not only play polo … but to be in places that they might want to be in, but may not have the chance to be in,” Williams told the News. “So with Yale and Morehouse, I think that was a good opportunity to inspire other people of color to do the same.”
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