soft-grass

Some observers believe that nurturing young players on soft-grass academy playing fields deprives them of the basic skills that previous generations learned on the hard surfaces of neighborhood streets and tight corners of the schoolyard.

Scoring Skills Heading South 2010

Gaffer I. spits out an over-munched stalk of meadow soft-grass and speaks:

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

Such grasses are, the Meadow soft-grass, Creeping soft-grass, False brome-grass, and Upright brome-grass.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

Gaffer I. spits out an over-munched stalk of meadow soft-grass, and speaks:

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863