Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final play-off is slated for Thursday night, with Yale a heavy favorite to enter one part of the bracket. Harvard is the only remaining low-handicap participant in the tournament, since it put out West Point in the opening game. The other colleges may find the Crimson's six goal lead a little too much to overcome, especially in view of the new life which the Harvard trio seems to have had injected into...
...recent Army game both Captain Gerry and Frederick Nicholas made five goals apiece, although the latter is rated at a much lower handicap. However the Yale trio is composed almost entirely of Old Aiken veterans, a far more experienced team than any of its rivals...
...teams played on a flat basis, although Princeton has a five-goal higher handicap rating than Harvard. The Tigers attack in the opening minutes of the first chukker lived up to the higher rating, but the smooth-functioning offensive launched by the Crimson trio gave them a 3 to 2 lead at the end of the first period. Throughout the game this lead was never over-come by the Princeton horsemen...
...conducted a performance of Die Meistersinger and Felix Weingartner, his superior, was so pleased with the results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once but it could not dim his reputation as a great interpreter of Haydn, Mozart and the French composers. He has since had big successes all over Europe, in London, at the Hollywood Bowl in 1929, after his Manhattan experience...
...Battery A team will give Harvard two goals as a handicap. F. A. Clark '29, powerful back of the opposing team, is considered to be a menace to Harvard's winning the championship and the trophy...