Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model of the Harvard football machine will get its initial test on the Soldiers Field turf this afternoon when the team from the University of Vermont comes from the Green Mountains to share in the festivities of another gridiron opening. The starting whistle is scheduled to blow at 3 o'clock...
...Simonds '28, the only regular from last year's team who is available this fall, is the cornerstone on which the coaches hope to build a group of guards capable of stopping the line bucks of such powerful backs as those now tearing up Worcester, Hanover, and New Haven turf. Simonds started last year as a tackle but was shifted to guard before the season was over was one of the mainstays of the strong Crimson forward defense. Like Captain C. A. Pratt '28, Simonds appears to be in better form than ever this fall, and should prove, with Pratt...
...Only two members, J. L. Coombs, Occ., and B. H. Strong '28 are letter men, and Coombs has not made his appearance in the role of a University regular since the Yale game in 1923, when he started as a Sophomore at left end on the Stadium turf. Strong's is the only name in the last of this year's ends which appeared regularly in last year's line ups. In addition to Strong and Coombs, however, Horween has several wingmen of wide gridiron experience. R. H. O'Connell '30 and John Prior '29, both outstanding figures in preparatory...
Pierre Samuel du Pont, chairman of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., last week surveyed the completion of one of the most elaborate U. S, open-air theatres. On a slope of his garden at Longwood, Pa., there were turf terrace seats on which 1,200 people might sit; below these a stage winged and backed by boxwood bushes. Under the stage there were dressing rooms, lounging rooms, large-sized bathrooms. In front of the stage, fountains were ready to lift a shining silver curtain of water...
Then came the men; four U. S. men in white, four Englishmen in red and blue. They scampered across the turf on their ponies, hitting the ball for practice. Soon they lined up. J. Watson Webb, No. 1 and spearhead of the U. S. attack nearest the ball; a little behind him Thomas Hitchcock Jr., and Malcolm Stevenson; behind them and nearer the white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert...