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...Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons at 2:30 o'clock the lacrosse players take to the turf to work mainly on stickwork, passing and formations. Equipment, including sticks, is available for all potential Indians at the Dillon Field House and Freshman athletic credits are given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Players Open Daily Drills At Soldiers Field | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

Terrier raiders were undoubtedly nervous or tired in the small hours of the morning as they industriously etched the initials of their alma mater on the Stadium turf. Their lack of artistry is condemned by no less an authority than William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terriers Trail Hot on Tail Of Technology's Techniques | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

Usually stoic John Harvard blushed scarlet over a "B.U."-lettered waistcoat as seven car-loads of Terrier students touched off kerosene poured in the symbol "BU" and stretching from the 50 yard line southward to the 35. Firemen and Yard police armed with guns arrived to find seared, black turf facing their hoses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U., Harvard Vandals Swap Raids; Rally Torches Light yard Tonight | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

...much-balleyhooed Harvard backfield performs in its 1947 debut. But his primary concern will center around those men who don't score the touchdowns, the ones who may be lying on the ground upfield in the wake of the play. And any time a red-shirted player hits the turf and stays there, the Varsity trainer will really start sweating...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

...Australia, the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and the West Side Tennis Club. As grave and important as Cabinet ministers, tennis' venerable scribes and pharisees sat in the marquee. It was a state occasion. On a table at the edge of the spotless carpet of green turf, looking not unlike a pretentious wedding cake, stood the piece of silver that all the excitement was about: the Davis Cup. This was the first challenge round in the U.S. since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Cup Stays Here | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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