Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ninety: Running broad jump-The entries were G. W. Wheelwright and R. Jones. Wheelwright won; distance, 19 feet, 1 inch...
Ninety-two: Running broad jump-The competitors were W. H. Duane and A. H. Green. Won by Duane; distance, 18 feet, 8 1-4 inch...
...contestants in the running high jump were J. P. Lee, '91, T. G. Shearman, Yale, D. G. Tenney, Yale, and R. G. Leavitt, '89. Tenney was the first to drop out at 5 feet 5 1-4 inches. From this point the contest was extremely interesting, for first one man and then another failed on his first trial, but cleared the bar on his second or third attempt. Lee dropped out on 5 7 1-4 inches; Shearman cleared 5 feet, 8 inches, and won, as Leavitt, whose best jump was 5 feet 7 1-4 inches, could not reach...
...next event was the pole vault, for which T. G. Shearman, Yale, and R. G. Leavitt, '89, appeared. Leavitt cleared 10 feet, 3 1-4 inches, breaking the Harvard record of 10 feet, 5-8 inches, made by Leavitt himself, April 2, 1887. Shearman vaulted 1 inch higher, thus winning the event, and also establishing a new record for Yale. The intercollegiate record for this event is only 10 feet, 3-4 inches., and was made at the meeting in 1886 by Shearman and A. Stevens, of Columbia...
...second and final heat in the tug-of-war brought the meeting to a close. Columbia won half an inch on the drop, but this was soon recovered by Harvard, with half an inch more. The strain was clearly too much for Perry, however, and at the end of two minutes, Columbia had pulled an inch of the rope to their side. From this time they kept increasing their advantage, until they had 5 inches at the end of four minutes, and a foot when time was called. The arrangements on the shoulders of the Columbia rope men evidently gave...