Elmer Boeseke
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Elmer Julius Boeseke, Jr. was an American polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Santa Barbara, California. In 1924 he won the silver medal with the American team in the
Boeseke, circa 1949
Polo
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Polo is a stick and ball game that is played on horseback as a traditional field sport, and is one of the oldest known team sports in the world.
Players playing polo
A Persian miniature from the poem Guy-o Chawgân ("the Ball and the Polo-mallet") during the Safavid dynasty of Persia, showing courtiers on horseback playing polo, 1546 CE
Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran, is the site of a medieval royal polo field
The Georgians Playing Polo in the Kingdom of Imereti, by Italian missionary Teramo Castelli, 1640.