Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cups will be awarded in each event, one for the best scratch and one for the best average handicap performance. The winter training table for the track team will be started on Monday...
...competitions will be held in the high jump, pole vault and shot put. At the end of winter practice two cups will be given in each event, one cup for the best actual record in each event, and the other for the best average point record plus the allotted handicap. These competitions are open both to Freshmen and upper-classmen...
...business staff. Those who are taken on will be eligible to compete for the position of business manager of the CRIMSON during their Junior year. The work will consist of soliciting advertisements, together with a certain amount of bookkeeping and routine work. The lack of previous experience will not handicap the candidate seriously...
...choosing Bennett, I have not over-looked Abbot, of Harvard, whose work in an ordinary year would entitle him to a place on the first team, but whose baseball training proved a handicap when compared to Bennett, as it made him prone to a certain awkward and upward stretch of the right arm, doubtless the result of reaching up after high drives during the baseball season, and in view of this slight technicality, I have felt that Bennett, whose double arm reach and sternum stretch is without flaw in its symmetry, deserves the precedence. --Michigan Daily...
...eyes, when, also, the swirling wind currents coming from the direction of the sun are noted it will be patent that the outlying backs were laboring under a fearful disadvantage. Princeton of course recognized all this when she won the toss and elected to impose upon the Crimson the handicap of these factors. What Nassau expected to happen did happen. The Harvard backs found themselves by the adverse conditions, and later, when positions were reversed, the Tigers found themselves in similar plight. But this, of course, offers no alibis for the fumbling of the ball on plays into the line...