Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handicap is not my blindness," said 35-year-old John last week. "The real obstacle is the preconceived notions that people have about blind people. And once people are convinced, they go to the other extreme. There's no middle ground about blind people. You're either the tin-cup variety or you're a genius...
Cross country coach Jaakko Mikkola hasn't yet seen his team in action but despite this handicap, the harriers are already on their way to a successful season. Bill McCurdy has been acting head coach since Mikkola was taken to the hospital for an emergency operation a week before the first meet. Even in Mikkola's absence, the team has finished second to Rhode Island in its opening quadrangular meet, and last week defeated Boston University and Brown in Providence...
...whip over boxing's hoodlums. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith: "Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd, and accomplished in more devious dodges than an absconding deadbeat...
Jaakko Mikkola will get his first chance to see just how well his cross-country team is shaping up today by means of an all-University cross country meet. Close to 50 varsity and freshman harriers are expected to run the race over the old handicap course. Starting time...
Mikkola refused to name the outstanding freshmen, although he indicated that this may be the strongest group of distance runners at Harvard in many years. The freshmen will get a five minute handicap on the varsity...