Today's Tidbit... Mowing Early Football Fields

Artificial turf is increasingly popular at football venues across the country. The systems drain well and eliminate muddy games commonly seen on heavily-used grass fields that exhibit dirt patches as seasons progress. Another justification for artificial fields is the reduced cost of maintenance. No watering, no mowing, and no chalking despite their intensive use.

Football was nearly 100 years old before artificial turf came along, so I thought it would be fun to look back on how fields were kept...