Word: mud
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mud, Hartigan’s a tough back. There were times when it looked like he was down and he just sprang back into play,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...
...last week, rising temperatures had turned the snow to rain, melting what had already fallen and drowning the entire region in a soup of water and mud. Officials ordered the helicopter evacuation of 2,200 visitors trapped in Yosemite National Park by the rising Merced River. Police in Northern California told some 95,000 people in Yuba City and Marysville to leave their homes as the Feather River overflowed its banks. A sinkhole in Seattle swallowed part of a gas station, while about 90 mud slides struck the area, burying roads, threatening homes and sweeping away the wooden supports...
...kickoff Saturday, despite clear skies. Fortunately for the Crimson, the weather in Boston rivals that in Pennsylvania. “I think it rained almost as much up at Harvard,” senior fullback Kelly Widman said, “and we had a whole practice field of mud, just like out there.” “This is better than our field,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy added. The layer of mud masked a good six inches of water that splashed up as the players scrambled for a foothold. Several times it proved costly...
...Crimson put together its best offensive showing in three weeks despite field conditions that were hardly suited for a high scoring affair. Still destroyed from over nine inches of rain and last week’s game between the Leopards and Columbia, Fisher Field resembled a mud bowl rather than a gridiron...
...Monday night,” Murphy said, “and said ‘Hey, here’s the deal, the field’s been destroyed, it’s been raining for 10 days, so we’re going to go out in the mud and we’re going to muck...