Word: turf
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sports are held in the famous "Tournament Park," acquired several years ago by the city of Pasadena. In this is the finest football field in Southern California and the only turf field. Here for many years winning teams from all sections of the world struggled in championship polo games the afternoon after the Pageant of Flowers, and the sport side of the festival has never been lost sight...
...Leiter Cup game on Soldiers Field he will be doing something worth while and something that people will hear about on that day he will emerge from the lounge lizard class and court those gods whose presence is felt in the sunlight, the clean wind, and the smell of turf. Either this, or he must come forth on a halter of compulsion. Compulsory exercise may not be so beneficial as that in which students indulge because of their love of sport for itself or for the opportunities it gives of exercise in the open, but it is vastly better than...
...return to Cambridge yesterday for the review of the Second and Third Battalions. In his absence the inspection was conducted by Major Flynn, assisted by the battalion commanders; and the two organizations were afterwards reviewed separately by their commanding officers. In spite of the slippery condition of the turf, the companies held their lines remarkably straight while passing in review...
...need have no fear, in spite of statements to the contrary, that minor sports will not be kept up. Jarvis Field will again be covered with aspiring and perspiring candidates, and the Oakley Turf will again suffer from the assaults of the golf team...
...would so soon become what its name implies. War seemed a long way off; the thirty thousand people were then far more intorested to find out whether Horween's kick would go true than what would be the result of the battle on the Somme. Things have changed. The turf in the Stadium is trampled by the feet...