Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of the University Handicap on November 4, coach Jaakko Mikkola was not sanguine about the prospects before Friday's quadrangular, but was well pleased with the results which confirmed his belief in teamwork. In spite of the terrific time registered by Dumboman Ted Vogel, who had left his teammates far behind, the Crimson was able to fill up those vital gaps and take over the second spot. When Vogel crossed the line in 21:56.6 some spectators wondered if they were witnessing a new world record breaker or on the other hand if the course of 4.25 miles...
Notre Dame's football coach-every schoolboy knows his name is Frank Leahy-began the 1946 season by overcoming a serious handicap: a single pair of eyes, operating at ground level, could not possibly watch the whole vast Notre Dame processing plant. So Leahy (rhymes with "may he") built a tower, 30 feet high and bristling with loudspeakers, smack in the middle of Notre Dame's three-gridiron practice field. From the tower he looks down on an operation that is as carefully calculated, as extremely complicated as the Studebaker assembly line in nearby South Bend...
Leading a field of 56, Oliver Filley crossed the tape 250 yards ahead of his nearest contender in the University cross country handicap yesterday afternoon on the Charles River course. Although he won the race itself hands down, his actual time was 21:10 which put him in sixth place according to the stop watch. Best time place was taken by Herb Pratt, who ran the 3.7 mile course...
Filley started in the class II handicap group with a 30 second handicap, while second and third placers, Watson Baker and Joseph Leeming, both began the race in the first class with no handicap...
Promptly at 4:15 o'clock the first contingent of nine harriers strode up the river trail from behind Newell Boat House. Following in quick succession the five other handicap classes took off from the line with 30 second, 50 second, 1:10, 1:50, and 3:10 handicaps respectively...