We’ve made no secret of our love for the British Pathe archives, and their searchable, viewable collection of 90,000 or so newsreels filmed between 1896 and 1976. Here, for your amusement, is a gem from the vaults, a sub-2-minute report from 1961 on a game of “motor polo, or autoball,” played by teams from Surrey and […]

There’s a fairly well-known couple of photos that have made the rounds of the Internet in recent years purporting to show a game of auto polo that many people have pointed out are actually staged, leading them to suppose that auto polo wasn’t actually ever played. However, as these photos that we found in the […]