Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...handicap 16-pound shot-put competition will be held in the Cage at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock, the first of the fall field event competitions for track team candidates. These contests will continue throughout the fall and winter training season, and all field event candidates are expected to enter in their respective events. These competitions are open to candidates for both Freshman and University teams...
...strenuous practice, devoting most of the time to handling punts, which still remains a weak point. The one scrimmage that was held however, demonstrated, that the team is in anything but bad condition after its tussle with Princeton. McKinlock's absence is a handicap, but with Whitney to take his place it will not be serious...
...second University crew won the handicap race in the Basin yesterday afternoon, defeating the University eight by one length and the third by two and one-half lengths. As the second received two lengths start, it will be seen that the University was able to gain only one length in the mile and seven-eights. The crew rowed very well while the University eight, though it cut down one length of its handicap in the first mile, was unable to get any speed in the rough water at the lower end of the course. The stroke was raised...
...fall rowing season for the University crews will end this afternoon with a handicap race between the three eights. Starting at 4 o'clock, the race will be rowed down-stream over the mile and seven eighths course in the Basin from Cottage Farm Bridge to the Union Boat Club. The launches "John Harvard" and "Veritas" will leave the Newell boathouse promptly at 3.45. The handicaps will not be announced until the start of the race...
...allotted otherwise than alphabetically; A's in the front row, Y's, and Z's, if any, in back. After all is said and done bout the student who is here to work deriving all possible good from College no matter where he sits, there is a distinct handicap in having one's name begin with Y and being relegated to a far corner of the room. No one who has ever sat in the balcony of the Chemistry Lecture Room in Boylston will deny...