Source: Chuck Humble’s “Bromide” sports column in 2/20/1969
issue of Linews.
(Linfield lost to PSU, 26-21.)
Also see, “NW Conference grass football fields: Two that are and one that was”
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
1969: Linfield-Portland State play in first Oregon college football game on artificial turf
“LINFIELD’S ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT AGAIN APPEARS headed for a
first. Next fall, September 20 to be exact, the Wildcats open the football
season at Portland State University in Civic Stadium, therefore becoming a
participant in the first college football game played in Oregon on artificial
turf. Portland is the first city in the world to have the fake turf in an
outdoor baseball-football combination situation.”
