William R. Linfoot

William R. Linfoot, also known as Billy Linfoot, was an American polo player.[1]

Biography

He was a nine-goal player.[1] He won three U.S. Open Polo Championships, three Butler Handicap titles, five National Twenty-Goal Championships, and the North American Cup.[1] He won three Coronation Cups, and competed twice for the Cup of the Americas.[1]

In 1968, he was one of six polo instructors hired by the Polo Training Foundation to teach polo at Cornell University, Yale University, and the Southern Arizona School for Boys.[2] He also taught Monty Roberts, Richard Shrake, Pat Parelli, and actor Tommy Lee Jones.[3]

He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame on March 17, 1994.[1]

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