Artificial football pitches - made primarily of plastic - have several significant drawbacks that make them widely unpopular at elite level. Though the surfaces have improved dramatically since the ...

Richard Schneider had just scanned the old negative of a West Point football ... black-and-white shot from the 1920s — linemen posed in formation, the center about to snap the ball.

And manager Marc White feels the surface ... It can have a big impact on football. You don't get the natural ball movement that you get on grass. "We sustained a lot more injuries on the ...