Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late afternoon and dusk is drooping down upon the Harvard Stadium field. On the turf, coach Joe Restic warns his Crimson gridders of the intricacies of the Dartmouth defense in preparation for their upcoming battle...
Difficult as those tasks may be, certain heretical aspects of the game as it is played in my ballpark today make historic diversion attractive. Even for a dyed-in-the-wool rooter, double-knit uniforms, artificial turf, and blazer-and-turtleneck bedizened umpires all need at least ten years aging before they might be countenanced on the diamond. It may be a century before products of the sandlots assimilate the Designated Hitter. Such gaudy perversions have me clinging to the Goldberg's Peanut Chews billboard which one adorned the left field wall in extinct Shibe Park's power alley. Still...
Again and again the Crimson would harass the MIT side of the turf but did not get any solid shots off. A flurry of shots towards the end of the half gave MIT a scare but could not produce another goal. While Harvard had ten shots in the first half and five corner kicks, MIT was allowed seven shots on goal and one corner kick...
...condition of poverty that justifies the effort to escape it. The camera just never strays from Kersey's rancid westside stomping-ground to acknowledge the New York ghettoes, or any other aspect of disequality in society. One is to believe that muggers have simply sprung from the same cultivated turf as Kersey--yet rejected urban planning so they can beat up old men and spray red paint on a rich girl...
While the Crimson gridders battle their opponents on the turf of Soldiers Field, the men in 60 Boylston St. will try to tackle inflation and the steadily rising cost of college football...