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...going 4-0 in Ivy games, giving two top-10 teams (UConn and North-eastern) nailbiting scares. Moreover the Harvard beat LaSalle, 3-0, on its grass field after having only packed astroturf shoes because LaSalle did not fill out all the paperwork to rent a turf field...
Anyone for astro-turf...
...number of players commented that Princeton's new, slippery artificial turf, combined with the fact that the Crimson didn't bring the right shoes for that surface was one of the big problems for Harvard. This was a problem the Crimson could have done without against a team that the players describe as almost technically perfect...
...Management made poor, even inexplicable, choices. For instance, in 1983 the company suspended production of the Chevrolet Malibu, the country's favorite family car and one of its all-time best sellers, totaling more than 6.5 million cars in a 20-year run. A year later, Ford claimed that turf with the Taurus. In the next 10 years, Chevrolet and Pontiac sales slid 37%, Cadillac's 42%, Buick's 49%. Oldsmobile's crashed 71%. The company lost a total of $30 billion from 1990 through 1992, a cash drain that amounted to nearly $50 million for every working day every...
...think we may be at a slight disadvantage because we don't have a turf field and we've been inside all week," Rollins said. "I think Cornell has been outside the past few days, because it has a field it can just plow. But our lack of time outside shouldn't make that big of a difference...