Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Feather weight sparring,- J. L. Dabney '91, P. Marquand, '89, F. L. Dabney '91, H. S. McPherson, '91. Bantam weight sparring.- H. S. McPherson '91, G. S. McPherson '89. Fencing.- H. F. Allen, Jr. '92, J. M. Morton, Jr., '91, S. Dexter, 2nd, '90, J. E. Lincoln '92. Horizontal bar.- H. F. Allen Jr., '92, J. P. Lee '91. Tug-of-war.- '89 and '91. Flying fings exhibition.- W. T. Pilsbury...
...sparring (140 1bs.), tug-of-war ('89 vs. '90, '91 vs. '92), heavy weight wrestling (over 160 1bs.), middle-weight wrestling (160 1bs.), light-weight wrestling (140 1bs.), feather-weight wrestling (125 1bs). At the second meeting, March 23, the events are as follows: Feather-weight sparring (125 1bs.), bantam-weight sparring (115 1bs.), flying rings, horizontal bar, broad-sword, fencing, and final tug-of-war. At the third meeting, March 30-Polevault, running high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, rope-climbing, parallel bars, two-handed fence-vault, and tug-of-war limit (600 1bs.), will be contested...
...present only four men have signified their intention of entering the "bantam" weight sparring at the winter meeting...
...meeting of the Athletic Association held yesterday afternoon it was voted to add a bantam weight contest to the list of sparring events at the winter meetings. Bell, '91, was also voted a cup for breaking the Harvard record in the hurdle race...
...past years have been deterred from entering our meetings on account of the very inequality. If I am not mistaken, there was an attempt made last winter to institute a class composed of those whose weight did not exceed 117 or 118 pounds, to be known as the bantam-weights. The attempt falling through, the originators refused to enter a ring where the contestants would be so unevenly matched...