Misprint for Snooker.

The Cavalry Journal. 31 May 1925

Dominion and Foreign Magazines.

The most important article in La Guerra y su Preparación for January is a detailed account of the military schools in the United States. This gives full information as to the course of education and training in all the schools from West Point downwards. One is rather puzzled to find amongst the athletic games at West Point a pastime called Soocer. I thought perhaps this might be a misprint for Snooker, but this is not, at all events in this country, where we take our pleasures so sadly, an athletic game. There is an American verb ‘ to soak ‘ which means (so I have learnt in Shadowland) to ‘ attack with violence.’ So, possibly, Soocer ought to be read as Soaker, which perhaps would not be an unfair name for American football.