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To answer my question, no.Perhaps we had a couple of dry winters those years. When the rains returned, then that was the end of the system.
50/51 was pretty wet, but Rowe did come up with a pitch innovation.
According to this https://www.spursodyssey.com/5051/pushandrun.html,
The ball repeatedly stuck in the boggy morass of grounds up and down the country. And then one day as they played a practice match, despite the pitch being boggy, the ball was running true again. Rowe was puzzled for a while until he remembered that no sand had been laid on the pitch that morning. Swiftly he ordered the ground staff not to put sand down on the pitch again for the foreseeable future. And Spurs began to play their exhilarating brand of football again.
It is funny to think that pitches today are near 100% sand, but I guess then, a rolling muddy ball ran better than a rolling muddy ball part covered in sand.
Of course that would not help us away, and sure enough it was our home form that drove us to the title. Away, in the muddy sand, we somehow adapted our game to keep it very tight. (Lost 0-2 at burnley though!)