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John Mascaro's Photo Quiz
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John Mascaro is President of Turf-Tec International
John Mascaro's Photo Quiz Answers from page 15
These brown areas are actually
sled damage, but not from being
left for days on one area. It actu-
ally occurred over a fairly short
period of time. The brown turf in
this photo is a result of direct high
temperature injury. This irrigated
bermudagrass practice football
field located in Texas had been
subjected to 30+ days lack of rain-
fall when this occurred. As many
of you may have training staff that
are not necessarily very good about
moving equipment around, this
particular day was no exception.
The training staff left this black
football practice sled on the same
area of the turf during 100+ degree
hot August day and the turf under-
neath it suffered from the heat as
shown in the picture. As you can
also see in the background, the
training staff did not learn from
their mistake the previous day.
Photo submitted by Lanse
Fullinwider, MCPTM, Grounds
Manager, University of North Texas,
Denton, TX.
If you would like to submit a photograph for John Mascaro's Photo Quiz please send it to John Mascaro, 1471 Capital Circle NW, Ste # 13, Tallahassee,
FL 32303 call (850) 580-4026 or email to john@turf-tec.com. If your photograph is selected, you will receive full credit. All photos submitted will
become property of SportsTurf magazine and the Sports Turf Managers Association.
