Word: turf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry him helplessly forward and pitch him head first and untouched onto the turf. "It was humiliating," he says. "Just imagine shaking loose with all that grass in front of you and then falling down. Some of the guys kidded me about it. 'Show Owens daylight,' they said, 'and he doesn't know what to do with...
...cold outside Dillon Field House yesterday afternoon. It was after five o'clock, and it was quite dark. The Crimson, under the direction of veteran coach John Yovicsin, was practicing on a field near the track bubble, and the turf was so wet, slippery, and sponge-like it really didn't seem worth...
...while sinking into the Ivy basement. Penn is still on the road to a national championship. The Quakers advanced to the finals of the NCAA Mid-Atlantic regional playoff on Tuesday by downing Montelair State, 3-0, on the astro-turf of Franklin Field...
...Business School field was extremely slippery and both teams found footing difficult throughout the game. In the opening minutes the Owls' short passing game controlled the ball while their four fullbacks and loose turf stymied the Crimson attack...
What was absurd even to think about last September happened all too realistically at Providence last Saturday. Brown overrunning a Crimson defense at will and stopping its offense cold, beat Harvard, 24-17, and left any chance Harvard had of salvaging a winning season lying shattered on the turf at Brown Stadium...