Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order in which the University relay team will line up in the Penn relays to be held at Philadelphia on Saturday, and announcement of the cups to be presented to winners in the University handicap track meet, constituted the information given out in the Crimson track camp last night...
Fourteen cups donated by former prominent Harvard athletes will be presented to winners of the various track events to be run off on Soldiers Field in the annual handicap meet next week. As was the case last year, a cup will be given to the winner of each event, most of the cups being given by former Crimson track stars. To the victor in the 100-yard dash goes the Mansfield Cup, donated by W. R. Mansfield '97 of the track team of 1895. Mansfield placed third in the Intercollegiate quarter mile at Berkeley Oval in that year...
...Interscholastics will be run off on May 5 following the completion of the University handicap meet. After a canvass of the 300 schools invited to compete, special rules have been made for three short distance events. In the 440-yard dash two separate races will be run, and the places will be determined by comparing the times of the first five men in each race. In the 220-yard dash and the 220-yard low hurdles two men will qualify from each at the trial heats. The five place winners will be picked from the leaders in the two final...
After a series of stiff practice sessions since their trial race last week, the two University crews will compete again at 4 o'clock this afternoon in a mile and three quarters test over the Charles River Basin course. The Ineligible combination, which showed surprising strength in the previous handicap grind, is scheduled to start with them as a competitor in the event...
Yesterday, while the University eights were cruising upstream for trial sprints, the two 150-pound crews held a half-mile contest under the supervision of Coach C. S. Heard '25. The first boat, stroked by James de Normandie '29, managed to overcome a length handicap in the distance but could not pull away from the seconds, paced by W. J. Shearer...