Word: drops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell has six pitchers in training. The Sun says one of them is developing a drop curve which will defy the heaviest batters...
...arranged which would be as interesting as the championship games have been. In games with the smaller colleges we have everything to lose and nothing to gain. A victory over them is immediately forgotten, and the nine receives no credit for it. But if we happen to drop a game to them the nine is condemned in the strongest terms. So it seems to us that Harvard will be taking a wise step if she decides to enter this new league...
When the old gymnasium was in use, the tug of-war teams used to be composed of four men, who, instead of poising for a drop, as to-day, leaned all their weight upon the rope preparatory to a heave. The referee pressed the centre of the rope down upon a chalk-mark on the floor, both teams were told to "get ready," and at the word, the rope was released, and they sprang back with a jump, heaving all together. Whichever team had the most perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks...
...gymnasium had entered on its second year, cleats were introduced for the feet, and the object became, as it is at present, to gain the most rope possible during five minutes. All the four men lay on the rope, raising with a spring, as if to get a new drop, when they heaved. In the out-door pulls, the teams burrowed holes for their feet, pulling furiously, and covered with dust...
...come, however. In 1882 the belt was introduced, by means of which the strain on the rope was made constant, and could be increased permanently at the will of either anchor. At present it is the object of both teams to drop as quickly as possible, the best teams giving a heave as they go down, and gaining several inches thereby. There are two ways of lying on the ropes, but all Harvard men pull with one leg across the rope, and the body resting on one side. The back is kept straight and most of the heave is made...