Word: events
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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JOHN S. COOK, Captain.At the meeting of the Executive Committee of I. C. A. A. A. A., Friday evening, officers for the games were chosen. The number of actual competitors allowed each college in an event, was limited to six. These must be chosen before the day of the games...
...handicap fence vault was the first event on the program. Daniels of Phillips' Exeter, who made a new record for the school in the recent indoor meeting there, was supposed to be the drawing card in this event, but he failed to appear, and the only contestants were A. H. Green, '92, and J. Connor, B. Y. M. C. U., who had a handicap of 3-4 inches. The bar was started at 6 feet, and gradually raised to 6 ft., 10 1-2 in., which both cleared. Connor failed to go any higher, but Green vaulted...
...horizontal bar, and S. B. McNear '95 was second. The only other entry was C. R. Bardeen '93, whose work compared very favorably with McNear's. Moore was certainly entitled to first place. His giant swings, forward and back, ending with fly aways, were the features of the event and were executed with skill and grace. At the close of the contest, Bardeen, McNear and Macallister '93 gave a very difficult combination...
...Hancock drew the bye in the broadsword event and left P. R. Turnure '94, and R. Stone '93, to fight out the trial bout between themselves. Turnure was quicker and stronger and won comparatively easy, scoring the ten points while Stone made...
Fence Vault, Fencing (semi-final bouts), Horizontal Bar, Broadsword (trial bouts), Tumbling, Fencing, (final bout), and Running High Jump. The handicaps in the last event, with 3 in. limit, are: Sherwin, 3 in.; Sheldon, 3 in.; Heywood, 2 in.; Morse, 2 in.; Fearing, scratch; Green, 2 in.; Bloss, 2 in.; Chaney...