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...last meeting occurs on March 24th, and the following events will take place: Running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, pole vault, horizontal bar, spring-board leaping, running high kick, tumbling, and the final tug-of-war between the teams winning the former events...
...another feature of the games and was won by Harvard in 4 m. 53 1-4 sec. The tug-of-war between '90 and '91 proved very exciting. '90 won the drop by about three inches and held it for three minutes, when '91 began to pull the rope over to their side and finally won by about four inches. In the evening a reception was tendered Mr. A. B. Coxe, '87, the captain of last year's athletic team, who was presented with a miniature Mott Haven cup, one side of which is engraved with the victors...
...soon as the crews have passed through the draw a long whistle will be sounded from the referee's tug as a signal for the crews to get into line. There will be a rope stretched across the river to which four boats will be moored at distances of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach. The boats will then be started in the following...
...which appears to have been arranged in two ways, in one of which the only difference between it and the present "tug-of-war" is that fewer persons took part in it, and that they stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other the rope was passed over an upper branch of a tree, or through a hole in a high post, and the competitors took hold of the rope, with their backs to the tree, and tried to pull up the opposite side...
...were gleeful when the ball went down, showing that '90 had the drop by a little over two inches. In about half a minute '88 got ready and began a succession of tremendous heaves. The '90 team rose as one man, but sat down again with six inches of rope on the side of '88. Balch did not give them time to breathe, but continued heaving. The audience began to think the performance was rather amusing. At the end of the five minutes '88 had taken in thirty-nine inches of rope. The freshmen made a good fight but "struck...