Jul 4, 2025
“Auto Polo”—A short-lived sport thought to have been created as an advertising stunt to sell Ford Model Ts in 1911.
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“Auto Polo”—A short-lived sport thought to have been created as an advertising stunt to sell Ford Model Ts in 1911.
In the 1910s and early 1920s Auto Polo was a popular sport — it was essentially polo with stripped-down Model Ts instead of horses.
I'm not sure the world was ready for...AUTO POLO
(Bain News Service. sometime between 1910 and 1915)
Auto Polo (ca.1911). Source
Auto Polo, Coney Island c. 1910-15 Source: G.G.Bain / Library of Congress
“Auto Polo”, 1910
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