Word: pull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goes out! " For we must remember, we cannot play in New York, and that it would lose Yale thousands of dollars if we got the Thanksgiving day game. The fact is, as Mr. Codman says, Yale has been using us this year as a cat's paw to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. I think you are right in saying that "Mr. Codman's charge of hypocrisy in these matters is most unjust," but Mr. Codman only voices the convictions of many graduates and undergraduates as well as to this one-sided agitation for a dual league...
...Columbia tug-of-war team has this year won every pull but one and has pulled a total of 102 3-4 inches...
...their getting overtrained. All the men individually row well, but their work together is not at all what can be desired. The enief difficulty they encounter is in keeping the boat steady and on an even keel. This is due to the following faults: First they do not pull entirely together nor with the same strength; second, some dip their oars too deep, while others do not dip deep enough; third some pull too much, others not enough, throwing the boat over to one side or the other. Their time is poor and they neither catch nor finish together. Although...
...Varsity tug-of-war team pulled the Riverside tug-of-war team last Tuesday night in two pulls, one five minute pull and one three minute pull...
...Princeton tug-of-war team will pull at the Columbia spring games May 11th...