Word: turf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Stadium sat cold and deserted yesterday afternoon, a light green tarp covering the newly laid turf. Rain-laden winds whipped the colonnade...
...rain is expected to end this morning, but cold winds of 25-30 miles per hour are predicted for the afternoon. In any event, the tarp on the field and the new drainage system should keep the turf firm for at least the first half...
Weather Unpredictable, Turf Generally Good--First Game Sept. 29 Placed Team Coach LL LB Comments Odds 3 Princeton (Colman) 11 21 Backfield makes favorite here 5-2 3 Dartmouth (Blackman) 14 14 Led by King, could go distance 3-1 1 Harvard (Yovicsin) 19 14 If line jells, might challenge 7-2 5 Yale (Olivar) 12 19 Look for big improvement here 8-1 1 Columbia (Donelli) 19 6 Too weak to repeat last season 10-1 6 Cornell (Harp) 14 20 If Wood gets help, might surprise 10-1 7 Penn (Stiegman) 12 21 Lost to better teams last...
...Hals himself, the father of perhaps a dozen children, was often near starvation. Most of the documents still in existence concerning his personal life are court records of suits filed by creditors. Hals was so poor that the city had to provide him with three cartloads of turf each year for fuel, and it also paid for his grave. He was buried in 1666 at a cost of four florins ($1.50). His paintings on exhibition in Haarlem last week were insured for $25 million...
Died. Charles Louis ("Clem") McCarthy, 79, the U.S.'s best-known horse-race announcer, an Irish horse auctioneer's son who, though thwarted at becoming a jockey, made the nation thrill to the turf's most exciting moments by the gravel tremor of his voice, particularly his annual (1928-50) calling of the Kentucky Derby; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Only once did Clem err, swapping first-and second-place finishers in the 1947 Preakness because they wore look-alike silks. Not the man to flinch, he rasped: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a horrible mistake...