Warren Athletic Hall of Fame Pre-1931 Photos  
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transpixel 1880s-1890s The Warren Armory on Jefferson Street was the home of the Warren Artillery State Championship target shooting teams of 1896 and 1897. And it also hosted basketball, boxing, ping-pong, a play in which a horse starred, roller polo, and walking. A published book opined that roller polo, "invented" in Newport, was "the sport" in New England in the mid-1880s. (The Armory is currently undergoing a deserved rehabilitation.) transpixel
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1880s-1890s The Warren Armory on Jefferson Street was the home of the Warren Artillery State Championship target shooting teams of 1896 and 1897. And it also hosted basketball, boxing, ping-pong, a play in which a horse starred, roller polo, and walking. A published book opined that roller polo, "invented" in Newport, was "the sport" in New England in the mid-1880s. (The Armory is currently undergoing a deserved rehabilitation.)


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