Word: featherly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are several men in training for the feather-weight boxing in the winter sports, and the event promises to be as interesting and well contested as it was last year...
...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 Miller, '90, Hitch and kick - by Moore, '89, 7ft. 11in.; W. Rice, second. Feather-weight wrestling - Leach, '90, threw S. Dodd, '87. Spring-board jump - won by Moore, '90, at 8ft. 6in.; F. Spaulding, '87, second. White, '88, and Terhune, '89, gave exhibitions on the balancing and flying trapeze...
...list of the contests: Horizontal bar, parallel bar, rope climbing, running high jump, vaulting, fencing, boxing and wrestling. The last-named event is divided into four classes as follows: Heavy weights, over 158 pounds; middle weights, between 140 to 148 pounds; light weights, between 120 to 140 pounds; feather weights, under 120 pounds...
...annual cane spree at Princeton between the sophomores and freshmen, the freshmen were signally successful. The freshmen won the cane in the feather-weight and light wrestling, while in the heavy-weight wrestling, lasting an hour and thirty-six minutes, as neither contestant was able to get possession of the cane, it was divided by mutual consent...
...crew as a whole does not keep good time; the oars hang over the water and do not go in neatly enough. The men do not slide slowly enough on the recover; they do not start on the recover soon enough; most of them do not feather long enough; they do not keep their blades quite covered, and some of them get jerky when they spurt." - Columbia Spectator...