Auto Polo took the traditional game of polo and added stripped down Model-Ts chasing an oversized ball across dirt fields in the early 1910s. Players were often thrown from cars and the damage to the vehicles was extensive but the spectators loved it. The sport reached its peak in 1913 but was halted completely in 1920 due to injures, soaring insurance costs, and mangled vehicles. This actually sounds like something that could be brought back and made to work. With all the advances in the ways cars are made they would be more stable and less easily damaged, though maybe that would ruin the sport for the spectators?
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