Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bechtel '17, R. H. Davison '17 and G. A. King '18 will run in a three mile handicap race, while F. T. Donahue '18 is expected to compete in the half mile event...
...positions will be open to competition on the University team because of graduation. As the future strength of the soccer standard depends on the ability of the Freshmen, an urgent call is made to the members of 1920. Lack of previous experience will be by no means a serious handicap, for soccer is a game not widely played in preparatory schools, so Captain Daly invites all those who are interested in the game to report for practice this afternoon...
...competition for positions of second assistant business manager of the CRIMSON from the Class of 1919 began yesterday. Any men unable to report then may enter the competition without any serious handicap by seeing the business manager some time today. This competition should receive due consideration from the Class 1919, inasmuch as three positions on the business staff are open to it. The men taken on the board will become assistant business managers in their Junior year, and one will become business manager in his Senior year...
...crew has yet to show its true calibre, for imperfect shell equipment has been one of the main causes for the poor preliminary record of this year. A new and heavier Davy shell was brought into use about the first of June, and this should overcome any such handicap. The crew, as has been said, is a heavy one with the emphasis in development placed on staying power. The defeats by Pennsylvania and Cornell have not shaken the confidence of the coaches in the first crew's ability to row a creditable race against Harvard tomorrow...
...open handicap track and field games held at Stamford, Conn., Saturday, T. E. Meredith, of the University of Pennsylvania, who recently established a world's quarter-mile record at the Intercollegiates, finished third in the 440yard dash. The race was won by H. I. Treadway, of Yale, with an 8-yard handicap, in 52 2-5 seconds. J. Nicholson, of the Loughlin Lyceum, New York, was second, having a 16-yard handicap. Meredith was scratch man and since the field was a large one, he had to circle it completely to get near the leaders...