School Seeks Turf After Teams Refuse to Play on Field

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In the five seasons since Branson (Colo.) High School launched a six-man varsity football program, the team has played its games on a former baseball field that has sat mostly idle since the 1980s.

As described by The Colorado Sun, the idle period turned the field to a dusty blend dusty representation of the region’s rough pastureland, dotted with tufts of prairie grass, mixed with rocks and garnished with thistles and cacti. The town of 71 residents tried to improve the field's conditions, with Branson gym classes fanned out across the 80-by-40-yard field and competed to see who could collect the most rocks. Others targeted the field's spiny vegetation, and seeing and fertilization efforts have mostly failed to take root.

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