Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pair of two-milers who are expected to take the measure of Lund, Coach Bingham's best entry for the eight laps, Lund, however, has shown remarkable improvement since he burst into prominence by running second to Burke in the mile race at the spring handicap meet, and he may beat either or both of the Tech distance...
...second meeting of candidates for the Business Board of the Register will be held in Randolph 34 at 7 o'clock tonight. Men reporting for the first time will be under no handicap because of their late start. The competition will last only four weeks...
...account of the fact that the Technology yearlings suffered a serious handicap in their race Saturday when stroke Blair broke his slide halfway down the course, a race-off has been scheduled for Saturday, May 13. The two University crews are booked to meet the first M. I. T. eights on this date, and it is planned to hold the Freshman contest the same afternoon, immediately preceding the Varsity races. The yearling course, however, will be over a mile and seven-eighths stretch instead of the Henley distance...
While Coach Farrell's best pair of weight-throwers were competing on Franklin Field, most of the members of the University squad were taking part in a handicap meet on the wind-swept track and field within the Stadium. Coach Tolbert's squad of 41 Freshmen who are making the trip to Andover today were excused from the meet and several of Coach Bingham's best track men, notably Chapin, Davis, and Whitney, who are still out with injuries, were unable to compete. The wind which swept in gales down Soldiers Field was at the back of the sprinters...
...mile run afforded one of the biggest surprises of the afternoon when Lund, Coach Bingham's new distance star, starting at scratch, ran through a heavily-handicapped field to win by a wide margin over Coburn, who placed second, finishing a half lap ahead of Mahon, who won his letter in the Yale meet last year, and two laps ahead of some of the slower runners. The finish of the quarter-mile was very close, the three men who placed all starting with a 15-yard handicap. H. F. Colt '22 and Curtis forged to the front at the last...