Word: turf
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coach Haughton started the work with a blackboard talk in the Locker Building, immediately after which the men were given about ten minutes' work on the dummies. When the second squad appeared on the field, the University men left the tackling practice and went into the Stadium, where the turf is in wonderful condition for football, being just soft enough to given a good footing and not in the least damp or slippery. Here the work was chiefly in running down under and catching punts. Felton, Milholland, Bradlee, and Bradley did the kicking and all got off kicks averaging...
...Garcelon, Graduate Treasurer of Athletics, has been investigating the possibilities of hockey rinks on the marsh land on Soldiers Field. It has been found that the rinks within the Stadium seriously affect the turf of the football field. If the proposed scheme is found practicable, rinks on the marshes will probably be constructed in the fall...
...needs them, it may be conducive to the happiness of us all to keep him happy--but I wish that somehow he could feel instinctively about each purchase, that if he could get on perfectly well without this or that, it would mean just so much more good turf for next spring's Leiter Cup baseball. Such a spirit of loyalty and idealism on the part of each man would make a lot of difference in the budget, and in Soldiers Field...