Word: polyturf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also serving as a Big Green plus is the fact that last week at Cornell, Harvard suffered enough injuries on the scorching Polyturf to last a season. Joe Kross, the starting tackle who suffered a knee injury, is definitely out, and others are probable at best...
...Polyturf also burns. Just ask the football team. It produces injuries, nearly half a dozen pulls, bruises and hyperextensions on Harvard's side alone Saturday...
They practiced on polyturf, they played on polyturf. The field hockey team played late Friday night, the soccer team early Saturday morning. On both occasions, it was cold, too cold to be outside playing games. But the weather didn't matter, because they didn't score...
...polyturf did matter. It was hard and it was slick, and for those unaccustomed to it, it's a decided disadvantage. Polyturf turns field hockey into ice hockey. It changes the nature of soccer, as sharp passes become missed opportunities, little chip shots the stuff from which goals are made...
...course, neither did the opposition, and when you throw in the hour that the football team spent there, and the lone touchdown it gave up, you realize that Harvard spent four hours on polyturf and gave up just one score itself. One in 240 minutes. That's stingy...