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unusual facts about playing field



Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium

The playing field in the stadium is named the Frank Broyles Field, honoring former Arkansas head football coach and athletic director Frank Broyles.

Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium

The playing surface is named Manning Field after the Manning family because Peyton Manning, Eli Manning and Archie Manning hold the Manning Passing Academy football camp at the facility.


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1877 Wimbledon Championship

The site of the inaugural tournament at Worple Road now serves as a playing field for the Wimbledon High School.

2012 Marion Blue Racers season

The team traveled to play the second seeeded Erie Explosion, where the game was played at a high school field, where the team had built walls for the playing field.

A Satire of the Three Estates

The complete play was first performed outside in the playing field at Cupar, Fife in June 1552 during the Midsummer holiday, where the action took place under Castle Hill.

Asgiriya Stadium

1915 - His Excellency Robert Chalmers, G.C.B., declares open the new Asgiriya Playing field with its pavilion and gymnasium.

Battle of Kingdom

Monsters like slimes can face off against each other for control of the playing field in the lower levels of the game while players are allowed in the upper levels of the game to summon the King's loyal army of archers, knights, horsemen and magicians.

Bobby Bragan

Each year, the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation honors outstanding athletes and executives for the achievements on and off of the playing field at the annual Bobby Bragan Gala to raise funds for the scholarships.

Buile Hill High School

The school is over 100 years old in some parts, with the school itself owning a playing field with a nearby college, Pendleton College, which is across the field to the north.

Comet Crash

Thorium is a mineral that is released from meteoroids that randomly travel across the playing field.

Courtney Johns

Johns was recruited by Essendon from East Fremantle (WAFL) playing in the colts, State U18s & reserves, until a career threatening fractured labrum in his draft year (2002 rookie draft) which kept him from the playing field for over two years.

Cradle of Rome

The gameplay is similar to that of Bejeweled; the player must flip jewels/resources on a playing field to create matches of at least three items of the same type.

Dale Ford

He was well known for being behind the plate for Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, known for Bill Buckner's error; for tossing Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver out of a game during the National Anthem; and for ejecting Reggie Jackson from a game only to have Jackson begin throwing all the contents of the dugout onto the playing field.

FC BĂĽsingen

It proclaims, that the club will never "go under", even when its playing field is flooded, in reference to the yearly spring floods the river carries down from the Swiss Alps.

Felbridge

Felbridge is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey with a playing field and Felbridge Nurseries within its focal area, narrowly in West Sussex.

Jerry Richardson Stadium

Businessmen Hugh McColl and Jerry Richardson purchased the naming rights to the facility's playing field in 2011, and construction finished in October 2012.

On November 1, 2011, the stadium's playing field was named McColl–Richardson Field after Hugh McColl, former chief executive officer of Bank of America, and Jerry Richardson, owner of the National Football League's Carolina Panthers, purchased the naming rights for an undisclosed amount.

Lucton School

The school has extensive sporting facilities, including an indoor swimming pool (opened by British Paralympian swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis, and formally named The Wessex Pool by HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex as part of the School's Tercentenary Celebrations in 2008) and a large playing field, named "The Holland" after its donor.

Lyle Smith

At the final regular season home game before his retirement as athletic director, the playing field at Bronco Stadium was dedicated in Smith's honor on November 8, 1980.

Multilateral Agreement on Investment

By the end of 1996, Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network based in Malaysia, obtained a document prepared for the OECD Ministerial meeting of May 1995 as well as for future WTO negotiations by the European Commission (Commission of the European Communities 1995: A Level Playing Field for Direct Investment World Wide, March 1, Brussels).

RAF Mousehold Heath

Part of the flying field survives as the playing field for the Open Academy, formerly Heartsease High School.

Rhombille tiling

In this context, it is called the "Q*bert neighborhood", after the video game Q*bert which featured an isometric view of a pyramid of cubes as its playing field.

Ron Andruff

In 1982, Ron left the pro playing field but continued to work in sports, assuming the position of European Marketing Director for World Championship Tennis.

Rugby league gameplay

Players of rugby league all need to be particularly physically fit and tough because of the game's fast pace and the expansive size of the playing-field as well as the inherently rough physical contact involved.

Saint Benedict's College

The football playing field was to be the breeding ground of a number of national footballers and Warren Archibald, Leroy De Leon, Jan Steadman, Steve David, Dick Furlonge, Wilfred Cave, and Bobby Sookram.

Shifra Bronznick

Bronznick is the founder of Advancing Women Professionals, a senior fellow at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and the co-author of Leveling the Playing Field with Marty Linsky and Didi Goldenhar.

St Bees

This playing field was created in memory of Baron Adams of Ennerdale.

Tina Wesson

Tribemate Jenna Lewis orchestrated this move stating "it's our game now, get... off our playing field!"