Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides his administrative duties, Mr. Webb does considerable writing. Every Saturday he shatters the doctrine that only one thing can be done at one time, for while Harvard and Yale will be battling on the turf this afternoon. Mr. Webb will be keeping a chart of the game, observing the individual play of each of the 22 men; but the "System" will be running the press...
Holy Cross, though outnumbered, possessed an individual star whose equal has perhaps never been seen on the historic Soldiers Field turf. Harvard had its pistol, but the Crusader leader had the Harvard stands on its feet yelling for more of his gravitational magic. The fight might well have been declared a draw by music critics, Harvard's volume equalling the single-handed figuratively, of course--performance of the Crusader's drum major...
...Indiana left the Stadium, after vainly attempting to check a powerful Crimson offense, on the short end of a 19 to 0 score. After a six year interlude in gridiron relations between Cambridge and the Middle West, the football representatives of Purdue, another Indiana university, appeared on the Stadium turf last Saturday and reversed by the same count the former Harvard Hoosier football verdict...
...lightest and fastest elevens seen in Cambridge in recent years ran through a snappy signal drill on the Stadium turf late yesterday afternoon. This team which will represent Purdue against the University this afternoon at 3 o'clock will go into today's game outweighed by almost 14 pounds to the man. What they lack in weight the Westerners will attempt to make up in speed and accurate handling of the ball. Few plays, according to information gathered in the Boilermaker's camp yesterday afternoon, are likely to be directed at the Crimson guards this afternoon. Off tackle slants...
...football season of 1927 went into the intensive training stage and some few teams heard the whistle of their opening games. Falling on the Ball. Thousands of boys and young men scowled blackly and flung themselves upon one another. Also, they flung them selves at footballs bouncing on the turf, and lost their tempers. The time-honored opening exercise of football practice (falling on the ball) vexed them...