Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARCHIE MANNING OF THE OLE MISS REBELS. To accommodate national TV coverage for Archie, the state legislature spent $150,000 to improve the lighting in the Memorial Stadium in Jackson, while at the University of Mississippi's Hemingway Stadium they only half-jokingly call the new artificial turf the "Archie Manning Memorial Carpet." Beyond that, there are buttons (ARCHIE FOR HEISMAN TROPHY), bumper stickers (ARCHIE'S ARMY), Archie handbills, Archie posters, Archie dolls, Archie T shirts and an Archie campaign song that has sold more than 50,000 copies. Sung by the Rebel Rousers on the Hoddy Toddy...
Quarterback Joe Massey, wingback Bob Milligan, middle guard Rich Lolotai, and offensive tackle Terry Kessler all sustained knee and ankle injuries last weekend in the Penn game on astro-turf. It is not known if they will recover in time to play Harvard...
...final play of the game saw Lowell's Jack Dalton streak into the clear to run under a long bomb, with the potential shutout-avoiding score. Looking back over his shoulder to spot the incoming pigskin, Dalton crumpled to the turf after smashing full steam into the goalpost. He dropped the pass. "I was so heated up over the game," he says, "that I didn't even feel a thing. At least not until I was lying on the trainer's table to get the X-rays...
...bounds, smashing him with elbows and knees as the two men skidded across the ice. Doubled over in pain and coughing pools of blood, Taylor staggered back on the field; on the very next play, he ran right over Huff, all but permanently imprinting him on the stadium turf. Even Giant fans cheered...
...constant rain and large puddles on the turf turned the "A" match against the B-School into an uncoordinated shoving match. With the college leading 3-0 in the first half, a minor skirmish resulted in the ejection of one player from each team...