Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhaust laid a blight upon it. Not only its hardships but also its responsibilities have so increased that science must come to its aid. Last fortnight the University of Illinois announced that its scientists would work-with Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses, old, new, domestic, foreign. Ten strips, each treated with a different amount and combination of fertilizer, will run lengthwise, cutting the grass at right angles...
Both the University and Freshman baseball teams were able to take to outdoor diamonds yesterday afternoon for the first practice games of the training season. Owing to the rather soft condition of the turf, the Harvard nine, confined to the cage since last Tuesday when it went out for a brief session of batting practice, did not use the regular diamond, but limited itself to one of the class fields...
Facing a schedule of 14 games, the University lacrosse squad is now working out daily on the Soldiers Field turf. Only ten days are left before the team leaves for the south, and the stickmen may be handicapped in their development through bad weather...
...first time this season, the University baseball squad was able to leave the shelter of the new cage to go through a brief workout on Soldiers Field. Although the outdoor session was brief and consisted solely of batting practice, it is hoped that the condition of the turf will improve rapidly enough during the next few days to let the squad have a full week of outdoor work before the opening game of the season with Boston University on April...
...Saturday, May 7 last year the Nassan journalists invaded Soldiers Field and battled the Harvard Fourth Estate to a 4 to 4 tie in a game called for a variety of reasons at the end of the ninth. This year the Princetonians have invited the CRIMSON to try the turf in New Jersey...