How Indian hockey cast a spell to win the 1928 Olympics gold
The gold medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Games was the first of the Indian hockey team’s record six-consecutive Olympic triumphs.
By Utathya Nag
As the Indian hockey team set sail for Amsterdam from the Bombay port to participate in the 1928 Olympic Games, only three people – the then Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) president, vice-president and a solitary journalist – came to see them off.
