Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FINAL TUG-OF-WAR.Last on the programme came the final pull of the tug-of-war between Harvard and Lafayette. It was an exciting time, Yale had won the four first prizes, and Harvard only three. To win the cup, the tug-of-war must be taken by Harvard. The rival colleges howled for Lafayette, and our delegation cheered for Harvard. At the drop our team was successful, and soon they had six inches to their credit. Then our men sat still and let the Lafayette men try to take the rope back. Easton, however, sat it out calmly, and could...
Thus, in spite of bad starts and other things conspiring against them, the Harvard team won the Mott Haven cup for the year 1885. The record of prizes stands...
...great victories for the Crimson have made last Saturday a red-letter day in the athletic annals of Harvard. For five years the Mott Haven cup has remained at Cambridge, and now it has come back to us for the sixth time, having been won by our track athletes in spite of the gross unfairness displayed by the managers of the intercollegiate games. Truly, the faithful work of the past year has met its fitting reward. The result of the game against Princeton was but another proof of the strength of our nine. As the score now stands...
...Black, our most formidable rivals, in a game which is of vital importance in determining the championship struggle. If victory falls to us there can remain but little doubt as to the result of the struggle for the pennant. Our track athletes will endeavor to retain the Mott Haven Cup which has been so long in our possession as to seem almost like a fixture. Of our success in this endeavor there can be but little question. The steady and faithful work of the past winter cannot fail to meet its proper reward. Of the third event in which...
...prizes, a cup to the first, and silver medals to the second, third, and fourth, were awarded to the following...