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The Polo Fields is a large multi-purpose stadium and sporting field in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. [2] Despite its name, polo is rarely played on the Polo Fields. The facility has a multitude of uses. [3] There are six regulation soccer pitches on the grass field, surrounded by a .67-mile cycle track. [4]
Polo Grounds (III) (left) and Manhattan Field (aka Polo Grounds II) (right) c.1900. Polo Grounds III was the stadium that made the name nationally famous. Built in 1890, it initially had a completely open outfield bounded by just the outer fence, but bleachers were gradually added. By the early 1900s, some bleacher sections encroached on the ...
Polo is a ball game that is played on horseback as a traditional field sport.It is one of the world's oldest known team sports, [7] having been adopted in the Western world from the game of Chovgan (Persian: چوگان), which originated in ancient Iran, dating back over 2,000 years.
The Empire Polo Club, hosting the Desert Trip music festival in October 2016 33°40′47″N 116°14′14″W / 33.679811°N 116.237256°W / 33.679811; -116.237256 The Empire Polo Club is a 1,000-acre (400 ha) [ 1 ] events venue in Indio, California , in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County , approximately 22 miles southeast of ...
[citation needed] The field is the only outdoor polo field in Los Angeles County, and the only field that is regulation size. The ranch has been in many movies and television shows, including Star Trek IV, in which it stood in for Golden Gate Park. [2] The polo field features a gentle slope that forms an area for viewing the polo action.
The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. [1] [2] [3] It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word "psychedelic" to suburbia.
The sport of polo has been a major contributor to the city's development. In 1978, William T. Ylvisaker created polo fields and introduced the mallet and ball game to the city. In the late 1990s, private polo fields owned by Summerfield Johnston Jr., Mickey Tarnapol, and John B. Goodman were combined to create a platform for high-goal competition.
The original polo field was designed by Will Rogers (1879-1935) on his ranch before he even designed his house in the 1930s. [1] [5] [6] [7] Early players were friends of Rogers, including David Niven (1910–1983), Spencer Tracy (1900–1967), Hal Roach (1892–1992), Walt Disney (1901–1966), Clark Gable (1901–1960), and Robert Montgomery (1904-1981).