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...enormous, all the available room being occupied by the spectators. The following are the records made in each event: Standing high jump - F. Spaulding, '87, 4ft. 8in.; W. Spaulding, '87, 4ft. 7in. Putting the shot - Cook, '89, 34ft. 10 1/4in.; Wagenhurst, '88, second. Tug-of-war - in the first pull '89 and '90 tied, and in second, '90 won by two inches. '88, who drew the bye, won this event by pulling '90 20 inches. Running high jump - F. Spaulding, 5ft. 5in.; W. Spaulding, '87, 5ft. 4in. Light weight wrestling - first heat Denny, '87, threw L. Rice, '88; second heat...
Yale has received a challenge from the Columbia Tug-of-War Team to pull under the rules of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association. The challenge will be accepted and the contest will take place in New Haven on March...
...Inter-collegiate A. A., has received an invitation to send a tug o' war team to the games of the Seventh Regiment, to be held at their armory on April 9th. Entries will be open till March 29th. It is not expected that the Harvard team will pull. - Cornell Sun. Then go ahead, Cornell...
...have now been at work in the gymnasium since the Christmas recess. They pull chest-weights, exercise with wooden dumb-bells, run from five to ten laps on the track, play handball and practice sliding in the cage. The whole is under the immediate supervision of Captain Vila, who is an old hand at this business, having had charge of two nines previous to his admission to college. He sees that the work is done systematically, and that every man is present except those previously excused...
...will of either anchor. At present it is the object of both teams to drop as quickly as possible, the best teams giving a heave as they go down, and gaining several inches thereby. There are two ways of lying on the ropes, but all Harvard men pull with one leg across the rope, and the body resting on one side. The back is kept straight and most of the heave is made with the legs. At the word of the anchor, all three rope men "go down" for a hold, while the anchor, coming rapidly forward, makes...