Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual indoor invitation handicap meet of the B. A. A. will be held in Mechanics Hall, Saturday, February 5. All of the leading colleges have been invited to compete in the team races which will be arranged among the following universities, colleges and clubs: Amherst, Bates, B. A. A., Boston College, Bowdoin, Brookline Gymnasium Association, Brown, Colby, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Irish American A. A., Irish-American A. C., Maine, Massachusetts Agricultural College. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Melrose A. A., New Hampshire College, New York A. C., Rhode Island State, Syracuse, Tufts, University of Pennsylvania, Vermont, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Yale...
...first step to rectify the conditions which at present handicap Yale football was taken recently when an advisory committee, consisting of three Yale graduates, Vance McCormick '93, S. B. Thorne '96 and J. R. Kilpatrick '11, was chosen, with power to add to its numbers, to consider the football situation and to make to the Athletic Association such recommendations as seem desirable. From present indications it appears likely that a coaching system similar to the one now in vogue at Princeton and Harvard will be adopted at Yale. There is always difficulty in finding a man fitted for such...
...soon as the cold weather comes, handicap competition in field events will be held regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the winter. Prizes will be awarded in each event to the three men who have the highest averages at the end of the season. Opportunity to enter a number of indoor meets will be afforded candidates, and a team will be entered in the B. A. A. meet in February. Voluntary work for track men will begin as soon as the board track is erected, and candidates for the relay team will be called out as soon as possible...
...system of interclass and group athletics only. But Harvard's athletics, certainly, are not conducted for the few. True all can not play on the first team; but there are constant calls for men for the minor sports; there are scrub football, hockey, and baseball games, club crews, handicap track meets, as well as excellent facilities for playing tennis. If then, games like the Haughton Cup series, are abandoned for lack of men, the system should hardly be condemned for failure to furnish opportunities. And there is no reason to believe that such a regime as president Foster advocates, would...
...University team has gone through a week of gruelling practice since last Saturday's defeat and has had the services of several backfield men whose absence has undoubtedly been a handicap. The shifting of Taylor to guard as a result of Wallace's return has further strengthened the defence. Mahan's drop-kicking and punting during the past week have shown a notable consistency and he should be in excellent form for the probable punting duel in this afternoon's game...