Word: astroturfed
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...Crimson enjoys an edge, however. The Tigers will play on grass, rather than their customary astroturf...
...could even argue that, had the Princeton game been in Cambridge instead of New Jersey, Harvard would have had a very good shot at winning. In Princeton's only Ivy game on grass, Yale took the favorites into overtime before losing, 3-2. The Tigers won their five astroturf Ivy games by a combined score...
...part, always seemed much more comfortable on grass. On the natural fields, Harvard was 9-4, going 4-0 in Ivy games, giving two top-10 teams (UConn and North-eastern) nailbiting scares. Moreover the Harvard beat LaSalle, 3-0, on its grass field after having only packed astroturf shoes because LaSalle did not fill out all the paperwork to rent a turf field...
True, the Crimson did play two of its best games on astroturf, beating William & Mary and almost knocking off Duke early in the season. And with the speedy forward line of Collins, sophomore Penny Fairbairn and freshman Dominique Kalil, Harvard seems like it should have been a good turf team. But Harvard's only blowout losses of the year were at Boston University (7-1) and Princeton, both of which came on turf...
...This was literally true at yesterday's game. Harvard rented Boston College's astroturf field to play Vanderbilt but apparently ordered the economy package, as the Alumni Stadium scoreboard was not turned on. It didn't really matter much, however, because one could count each team's score on separate hands for three-quarters of the game...