Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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After an absence of many years Harvard returns to the basketball court when the Crimson five meets Clark College tonight. The team faces more than the handicap of untried material and inexperience; it lacks the solid foundation of past achievement and tradition upon which basketball, like every sport, must rest. Without this invaluable backing, the team, this year, must start from the bottom...
...agreed to play the first two games at Reading under the rules of the Eastern League and the next two at Troy under the New York League rules. The Pennsylvania rules were more strict relative to fouls and because of this the Troy team suffered the greater handicap. The first two games at Reading resulted in easy victories for the home team because of the numerous fouls called upon the Troy players and the wonderful shooting from the foul line of the Reading captain...
...interest in those few Freshmen who find eating at their halls a strain on their finances. Rather than change any part of the "commons" plan, it will do its best to help a man find some way of meeting expenses so that he need not be under the double handicap of having to earn his way through college at the risk of losing one of the most valuable things Harvard can give--the opportunity of becoming acquainted at the outset with the men who are to spend four years together in college...
...Leavitt & Peirce's before last night, may obtain them from D. F. O'Connell '21 in the Bowl tomorrow before the game. All those who already have red handkerchiefs are warned to be sure and take them to New Haven. A single gap in the letter is a serious handicap. Team work is needed if the "H" is to be a success...
...last week means simply this: every Harvard man back of the team, every man, with a ticket to New Haven in his pocket, ready to contribute all he can to overcome the handicap of facing a fighting mad Yale team on its home field. The game is not won yet; it won't be won at all if Harvard supporters minimize the task that is ahead of the Crimson team...