Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...England Intercollegiate Athletic Association will omit the standing, high, and broad jumps and will substitute a 220-yard hurdle race with 2 feet, 6 inch-hurdles at their annual championship games, to be held at Worcester...
...meeting opened by a handicap fence-vault, contested by G. W. Pear-son, H. A. A., scratch; A. H. Green, H. A. A., 1-2 inch handicap; C. F. Lincoln, B. A. A., 1 1-2 inches; J. C. De Bullet, M. I. T., 2 1-2 inches and G. B. Morrison. B. A. A., 2 1-2 inches. Lincoln failed at 6 feet, 5 inches, De Bullet could go but an inch higher, while Pearson and Green dropped out at 6 feet, 10 inches, thus leaving Morrison the winner, with a vault of 6 feet, 11 inches...
...only Princeton record which was broken was in spring-board jumping, in which McCord made a record of 8 feet, 7 inches, beating the previous record of 8 feet, 6 inches, made by Moore in 1887. In the high jump, McLanahan, '92, won with apparent ease, by a jump of 5 feet, 1 inch, Roddy, '91, and Small, '92, tying for second place. Mr. Stoll, of Staten Island Athletic Club, gave an exhibition of rope climbing, making the 35 feet in 10 1-5 seconds. There was only one bout in heavy weight wrestling, contested by Huston, '89, and Pierson...
...referee of the meeting, and G. S. Mandell, '89, and R. S. Hale, '91, were the judges. Following is a summary of the events and winners: Rope-climbing-Meehan, '90, time 8s.; fence vault-Cummings, '89, 6 ft. 6 in., breaking the school record by one and three-quarters inches; high kick-Cummings, '89, walkover; featherweight sparring-Atherton, '92. In the running high jump, three Harvard men had entered, but only one appeared at the scratch-J. P. Lee, '91. He took third place, being handicapped four inches. Morse, of the B. Y. M. C. U., won the event with...
...attendance at the gymnasium contests at Yale Tuesday evening was remarkably large. The tug-of-war between the Yale and Second Regiment teams was unusually exciting. At the end of one minute the mark was even; at two, the Second Regiment had the rope by half an inch; at three, by three-quarters; at four, by one-quarter; the Yale team then made a strong brace, and when time was called, the mark was even. The Yale team was made up as follows: 1, Crall; 2, Veeder; 3, Lowe; anchor, Hanson...