Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic authorities of the University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track team's plight...
...half over the Sophomore boat, and will, in consequence, meet the winning Yale class shell on the Housatonic two weeks from tomorrow. The first Eliot crew scored an easy victory over Thayer in the race for the Inter-Club championship, in a contest greatly marred by the handicap which the losing eight sustained when one of their seats split in two at the end of the first quarter-mile and left the shell with but seven active sweeps during the remainder of the mile course. In the opening event of the regatta the 3rd Freshman boat defeated Stone School...
...feature of the Eliot-Thayer race was the breaking of No. 5's seat in the Thayer boat at a moment when that eight was taking the lead and seemed to have a first-rate chance for a victory. This handicap proved too much for the Thayer oarsmen and their opponents rapidly increased their lead to three lengths, which they held to the finish...
Entries for the annual spring track handicap meet close at six o'clock this evening. Any member of the University who has taken a strength test is eligible to compete in the carnival, which will begin promptly at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Entry books are posted at the Locker Building, Leavitt & Peirce's, and the Freshman dormitories...
...usual, handicaps will be given to all entrants so that no man will be at a disadvantage on account of inexperience. Four cups which have not been competed for since 1916 will be given to the winners who may retain them for one year. The four cups are: Wells Cup, handicap mile, won by W. P. Whitehouse '17 in 1916; S. G. Wells Cup, quarter-mile, won by W. Wilcox, Jr., '17, in 49 3-5 secs, in 1916; Lathrop Cup; 220-yard dash, won by E. A. Teschner '17, in 21.4 secs., in 1916; Mansfield Cup for 100-yard...