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...athletic outlook at Columbia is good. The candidates for the various teams are in strict training, and great hopes are entertained that the representatives of the blue and white will make a fine record during the coming season...
...only Princeton record which was broken was in spring-board jumping, in which McCord made a record of 8 feet, 7 inches, beating the previous record of 8 feet, 6 inches, made by Moore in 1887. In the high jump, McLanahan, '92, won with apparent ease, by a jump of 5 feet, 1 inch, Roddy, '91, and Small, '92, tying for second place. Mr. Stoll, of Staten Island Athletic Club, gave an exhibition of rope climbing, making the 35 feet in 10 1-5 seconds. There was only one bout in heavy weight wrestling, contested by Huston, '89, and Pierson...
...Walter Soren, '83, was the referee of the meeting, and G. S. Mandell, '89, and R. S. Hale, '91, were the judges. Following is a summary of the events and winners: Rope-climbing-Meehan, '90, time 8s.; fence vault-Cummings, '89, 6 ft. 6 in., breaking the school record by one and three-quarters inches; high kick-Cummings, '89, walkover; featherweight sparring-Atherton, '92. In the running high jump, three Harvard men had entered, but only one appeared at the scratch-J. P. Lee, '91. He took third place, being handicapped four inches. Morse...
...have spoken before, and we take this opportunity to speak again, of the false statements which have appeared in many papers regarding the records of championships in the foot-ball league. The errors have come largely from ungrounded claims made in the Yale papers, and it will be strange if at the meeting of Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been...
Davison, '90, Yale Sheff., hold the American record for sixty-yards ice skating...