Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Philip, '84, of Union, won the first, 10 2-5s.; Brooks of Yale, the second, 10 2-5s., and W. Baker the third, 10 2-5s. Billings, '85, the only other Harvard man entered, came in second in the third heat, and so ran in the finals. In the final heat the word to "set" was so quickly followed by the pistol shot that Baker was taken unprepared, and so failed to catch Brooks who won in 10 1-5s. Baker came in a close second. This was quickly followed by the trial heats...
...before his heat was completed, so the chances of Harvard winning this event were early dissipated. Hamilton of Yale, won the first, with Reed of Columbia, second. Howard of Cornell, took the second heat, and the third was won by a man from one of the smaller colleges. The final heat, which was ridden later on, was taken by Hamilton, in 6m. 48 1-2s. Reed, second. Meanwhile...
...fresh. Harvard won the drop by one inch and then heaved and obtained eight inches in all. They then waited for Yale to heave, but the blues failed to make any movement throughout the five minutes to the surprise of all, and so Harvard won by eight inches. The final tug was between Lehigh and Harvard. Those on the grounds thought that Lehigh had shown up better in the preliminary trials, but when the last five minutes pull was over, Harvard had pulled a foot and a half of their adversaries' rope over to their side...
...YARDS HURDLE RACE.This was run in heats. Mulford of Columbia, won the first, with Ludington of Yale, second. The second heat was taken easily by Bradley, '86, with Harriman of Princeton, second, and Agassiz, '84, third. The final heat was won by Mulford, who was pressed considerably by Bradley, the second man. The time made, 17 1-2s., betters the college record made by Jenkins of Columbia, two years...
...last event, except the final pull of the tug-of-war, already described, was the final heat...