Looking
KCABBACK Left: Can you imagine the time and patience it took snowblow an entire rink in the 1950s? Below left: This truly was a different pregame ritual in the 1950s. This tractor and attachment took six people to smooth and pull the snow away from the boards.
Making Ice
Members of the 1898 Polo Team depended on the weather to play—now our students have a facility with two rinks with their own Olympia machines to keep the ice playable. Making and keeping ice has come a long way in 120 years. These photos are from the 1950s, during the construction of Mays Rink and Angier House, and before the installation of the roof that kept the ice colder and free of snow. Angier House still holds the refrigeration equipment for Mays, along with the changing room with a fireplace.
—Beth Nolan Lovallo ’93, The Leslie D. Manning Archives
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Taft Bulletin / WINTER 2021
Below right: This photo, taken after the roof was added in 1957, shows an early Zamboni. Mr. Zamboni himself came out annually to service the machine.
