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...following articles shall hereafter regulate contest between the students of Harvard and Yale Universities in base ball, football, rowing, and track and field athletics, for the three years 1890-92 [or until the expiration of nine months after notice by either university of its desire to withdraw from this arrangement...
Rule 1. No one shall be allowed to represent either university in any athletic contest either individually or as a member of any team, unless he is, and intends to be throughout his college year, a bona fide member of the university, taking a full year's work...
Running high jump: The event was one of the best contested of the meeting. The men showed a great deal of skill, and the records of all were very creditable. Morse came from the B. A. A., and Fearing '93, and Green '92, represented Harvard. The Yale men did not turn up. The bar was started at 4 feet 61/2 inches. Green was the first to drop out. Fearing failed at 5 ft., 101/2 inches, after a pretty contest with Morse. The bar was put up a half inch but Morse failed to clear it and won the event...
...inches. At the next raise Ryder and Ewing both failed at first and finally secceeded in getting over the bar. All the men but Curry failed at first when the bar was put at 9 feet, 4 in. Crane dropped out at this height and the contest was left to Curry, Ryder, and Ewing, none of them Harvard men. The bar was put at 9ft, 10in. Byder and Ewing both dropped out at this height, and Curry, B A A, won the event at 9ft, 10in. Ryder and Ewing then vaulted for the tie for second place. Neither could better...
...deciding contest in tug-of-war between '91 and '93 took place in the gymnasium last evening. Ninety-one was the quicker in getting the drop by over an inch. At the end of one minute '91 had gained an inch and a half. During the next minute '93 had gained a quarter of an inch, but at the close of the third minute '91 had an inch and a half. The rope remained the same at four minutes, but at four and a half minutes '91 had one and three quarter inches. During the last minute in spite...