Word: turf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weather factors, seemingly influential in two Crimson victories on a muddy turf so far this year, were completely discounted by Olivar. Yale has also scored two convincing wins in the rain and mud, he explained...
Meanwhile the vaunted Harvard line was continually being pushed around, varsity passes were falling all over the Stadium turf, and bored spectators were shooting paper airplanes from the stands, as a hard-tackling Brown eleven drove to a 14 to 6 upset victory...
...Eden Crowell Woodward, a farmer's daughter and onetime model from Pittsburg (pop. 20,000), Kans. enthusiastically shared her husband's interest in the turf and society. Several years ago, after watching Bill Woodward shoot a tiger and a leopard in India, she decided to take up big-game hunting herself. Last winter, in the jungles of Assam, she bagged two tigers (including one tenfooter, an unofficial record for women) and two leopards...
...angry varsity eleven, determined to play its top game of football, will run onto the Stadium turf this afternoon to face an upset-minded Bucknell squad. Starting time for what promises to be a close contest...
...twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of House football--a game between the original opponents, Dunster and Lowell--has been postponed indefinitely. Scheduled for last Thursday, the game was put off until Friday because of "wet turf," but Friday's turf proved still too wet for the game...