Word: slipperyness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only about one hundred spectators watched a very uninteresting game between Harvard and Pennsylvania on Jarvis Field, Saturday. When the game was called a strong easterly wind was blowing, and rain soon after came down in torrents, rendering the ground and ball very slippery and making fine plays impossible.
There was no attempt made to line the fair lines until 3 o'clock, when the game should have been called. This took time, and game was finally called at 3.30 with the fair lines still wet and slippery, and pegs a foot high stuck all over the field, which...
In the spite of the rain, many went out on Jarvis to see the practice begin. The ground however, proved too slippery for effective work, and after a brief game the playing ceased.
About five thousand people saw the final struggle for the foot-ball championship. It had rained hard all right, and all day up to the time of game had drizzled so that the field was slippery and in places covered with water.
To-day was fair, to every one's delight. When, at 2.15, both teams filed out upon the athletic field, a heavy northwest wind was blowing across it, and the ground was slippery; but there was no rain. New seats had been erected on the grounds, and all these, and...