Word: 5ft
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 Horne, '90, threw Goldie, '90; final heat won by Denny. Pole-vault - won by F. Spaulding, '87, at 8ft. 4in.; Chapin, '90, second. Middle-weight wrestling - won by Black, '88, who threw...
...second trial of the high jumping contest held in the gymnasium at Yale last Saturday was won by Sherwood, '90, with a jump of 5 3-4 feet by reason of his handicap over Shearman, '89, who jumped 5ft. 2 3-4 inches...
...Oxford Freshman games on Monday, the 17th of November. H. Madeley won the quarter in 53 4-5s. The mile was captured by H. Munrce in the creditable time of 4m. 44 3-5s. W. P. Montgomery won the high, clearing the very decent height of 5ft. 6 1-2in.; and 20ft. 8m was covered by H. G. Fanands in the running broad...
...seen at any contest in America. Six men, W. B. Page of Penn., The man who recently made a record of 5 feet, 9 inches, Harriman of Princeton, Richards of Columbia and Atkinson, Clark and Fogg of Harvard, were entered and all contested. The bar was put up to 5ft., 5in. before any failed. Harriman then dropped out with a record of 5ft. 4in. Fogg cleared 5ft. 6in. and then failed. The next to drop out was Page, who cleared 5ft. 7in. The three leaders now had a close contest for first place, but Richards failed next, having cleared 5ft...
RUNNING HIGH JUMP.H. D. Danforth, '77, 4ft. 8in., Oct. 24, 1874; C. W. Hubbard, '78, 4ft. 10in., May 22, 1875; C. W. Hubbard '78, 5ft. 1in. Nov. 6, 1875; E. C. Hall, '76, 5ft. 1 1-2in., March 18, 1876; C. W. Hubbard, '78, 5ft. 2in., May 19, 1877; G. B. Morrison, 83, 5ft. 2in., March 13, 1880; A. C. Den niston, '83, 5ft. 7 1-2in., May 17, 1880; A. C. Denniston, '83, 5ft. 7 3-4in., March 21, 1881; C. H. Atkinson, '85, 5ft...