Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all. The Yale band also did not sink to the occasion. Had marauders from M.I.T. prepared an appropriate prank-last year they spent three weeks engineering the implantation under the midfield turf of a 4-ft. balloon, which they inflated and exploded by remote control in The Game's second quarter-the occasion might have been lightened, but this year they, too, failed to find inspiration...
...potential stumbling block remains--the effect the concert would have on the Stadium's $50,000 turf. If a way to protect the grass can be found, Epps and Reardon should let the people hear the music...
...first reaction of administrators might be to beef up security around the edges of the field to keep people off the turf after games, like the Game, in which spectators might tear down the goalposts. But the problem is more complicated than that. Students in a state of drunken excitement probably would not be daunted by the increased force. In fact, the deployment of security personnel might add a violent dynamic to what in itself is a quite harmless way for frenzied students to let off steam...
Some of the same faces were there Saturday. I high-fived a Harvard comrade as large chunks of loose turf flew over my head. Two feet away, on oafish prep was scuffling with the Yale security guards, who had begun to realize the fertility of their presence...
...incidentally--filled with yellow paint. They were triggered by mousetraps that the wires connected to some benches and an endzone. Had it not been for some alert groundskeepers and the Cambridge bomb squad, the paint, when released, would have resulted in a huge, jaundiced "Y" appearing on the turf...