Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weather could also become a factor, as the Astro-turf on Franklin Field becomes slippery when wet and the ball tends to skid. Monro said the game will speed up under such conditions and hurt Harvard's chances...
...They're very hard to beat at home," Monro said, and mentioned that the Crimson squad had practiced under lights on Astro-turf at Boston College Wednesday night in preparation for the game...
...first, the Brown offense kept the ball in Harvard territory for painfully long, taxing goalie John Kiernan and the Harvard defense to their limits. But as the half progressed, the Harvard booters warmed up to the play, and countered with drives deep into Brown turf. But the crucial difference between the two offensive units was the sporadic nature of the Harvard drives--the offensive push seemed to come in spurts and gushes, contrasted with the intense and consistent quality of the Brown attacks...
...student activism, it is difficult to estimate student interest in old fashioned electoral politics. Dormitory-bound students are usually unaware of the real character of Cambridge life--the city extends over two miles in either direction from Harvard Square, while most of The Crimson's readership feels on alien turf if it ranges two blocks beyond Burr Hall to Rindge Tech High School. Harvard's consistent and unneighborly expansion policy has irrevocably altered neighborhood residence patterns and introduced student life into the areas below the Law School, around Radcliffe and in the direction of Peabody Terrace. But few of Cambridge...
Harvard's record in the Ivies now stands at one and one with the next League game against Dartmouth this Friday on home turf...