Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other schools, which all will arrive when the headquarters open on the 26th. "It's obvious why we're going down early," Munro said yesterday. "We need to get accustomed to the climate, heat, humidity, and hopefully to get a lot of work down on artificial turf...
Many experts are leary about playing the championships on the artificial "Poly-Turf" surface in the orange Bowl, which is presently under careful scrutiny as the possible cause for numerous slips and losses of footing experienced by football players there. Also, the limitations that the Orange Bowl forces on the more expansive dimensions of soccer fields has been a cause for debate...
Cornell Coach Dan Wood, said yesterday his team "was out-shot and outplayed in the second quarter." He claimed "One shot was kind of fluky but that's the way it goes in the mud." Cornell plays on a spic-and-span poly-turf surface for their home games...
...Harvard meets Pennsylvania in the Miami semi-finals, Wood said he would have to go with Penn. "They're used to playing on poly-turf. They have the best defensive record in the league. For a Harvard victory, the forwards would need a couple of great plays," Wood said...
...freshman field also proved unusable although it had not been covered. The soft turf would not stand up to a snowscraper working on the field...