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Fogg, '85, broke the amateur hitch and kick record at the Technology games on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/9/1885 | See Source »

...first kind, three falls meant defeat. This was the only form which was used in the Pentathlon. Boxing was considered a professional sport, and did not enter into the games. They used no gloves, but the hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened the hand and broke the force of the blow. The contestants fought until one held up his hand as a sign of defeat. Milling and blows below the waist were allowed, and, in fact, everything which could help to defeat an opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Athens. | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

...wonder that. with such lack of variety of nutrition, sore boils broke out on them, until we heard of one man who had seventy-three. No I wonder that men could not sleep, and getting up at midnight and faithful to their orders not to slake their burning thrust, would bathe their heads and necks for the relief it brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training at Harvard 15 years Ago. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

Baxter, '83, the noted sparer, broke his hand on Tuesday for the third time in a bout with one of the leading Boston professionals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

...Columbia sophomores recently broke into a room where the freshmen were having a meeting and indulged in a rush with the '88 men. To effect an entrance the sophs had to break in the door, and when in they found the freshmen all ready for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

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