Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race, in which he consistently outran the horse. In 1898 he stumbled over a dog, broke his leg, thereafter coached at Yale, Maine and Ohio State, before settling at Michigan. Once able to jump 11 ft. backward...
...after the Holy Cross disappointment we have confidence that Harvard will get under way before the season is much farther advanced and show the power which it really possesses. The material is there. The linemen are heavy, heady, and fast enough to match any college aggregate without demanding a handicap. The backs are fast, shifty, and with a few exceptions are rugged blockers and tacklers. The new Sophomore prospects have kept their word (when they are uninjured) and have proven in the scrimmages that they are of Varsity calibre. The only consistent deficiency that the critics can point...
...spite of a muddy track and a cold adverse wind there were several noteworthy performances to top off the annual fall University handicap meet yesterday afternoon. Milton G. Green '36 was the only double winner, cavorting over the high sticks in an elapsed time of but 15 3-5 seconds and likewise winning the 220 low hurdles in 25 3-5 seconds. Richard C. Hayes '36 placed second in both these barrier races...
...Garrison '37 captured the Century from Edwin E. Calvin '35, sprinter on last year's Varsity. The time was 9 4-5 seconds, which is somewhat discounted by the handicap of the winner. In the longer distance races John E. Rogerson '34 gathered the laurels in the 300-yard run, while Gerald P. Rosen 1L won the 880-yard run by a hairline from Howard S. Derrickson '35, providing the one close stirring race of the afternoon...
Inexperienced track and field performers will have an opportunity to prove their worth in the Handicap Track Meet which will begin at 2 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. It will be of an informal nature and Coach Mikkola will give liberal handicaps to untried...