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...you’ve ever watched the green Astroturf, hidden beneath Lavietes Pavilion, roll across the gym floor for baseball practice (though that activity has relocated to the recently renovated Palmer-Dixon tennis courts) or if you’ve ever visited each of the other seven Ivies, you know that Harvard’s facilities rank in the bottom half of the league. Compared to Penn’s Palestra, Princeton’s Jadwin, and Yale’s John J. Lee, Lavietes best strikes one as a high school gym, not only by its size, but also...
...Television in the 1960s and early '70s did not lack absurdities ... Yet of all the ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same man, Sherwood Schwartz ... [He] called Gilligan...
...Crimson’s scoring juggernaut, anchored by Fitzpatrick, would not reach week five of its season intact. With Harvard ahead of Cornell by 27 points in the fourth quarter and cruising to its fourth win of the season, Fitzpatrick took a bad hit and tumbled to the unforgiving Astroturf of Schoellkopf Field, his fall cushioned only by his throwing hand...
Still, given its unparalleled academic offerings and newly discovered dedication to championship-caliber football, the Ivy League captures seven consecutive BCS national titles beginning in 2013—four of which are earned by Harvard, which lures recruits to Cambridge with a brand-new Astroturf stadium. The stretch is highlighted by the Crimson’s third title, in 2016, earned at the Rose Bowl, capping a perfect 13-0 campaign and marking the program’s first Tournament of the Roses title since...
Harvard women’s lacrosse had a void to fill, but the Bright Hockey Center was only a stone’s throw away. This spring, sophomore Caitlyn Cahow is trading ice for astroturf...