Word: jiu
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University team excelled in work on the long and side horse, and in tumbling, while the Columbia team excelled in work on the horizontal and parallel bars. A feature of considerable interest was the jiu-jitsu of H. G. Yagi 2G. and C. Yokoyama...
...pole-vault A. Robeson '04 and R. B. Gring '05 both cleared 10 feet 8 inches, an excellent performance for indoors. The boxing matches were fast and interesting, and the jiu-jitsu contests novel and exciting...
...exhibition of the Japanese wrestling called jiu-jitsu, which, translated, means the gentle art, will be given in the Gymnasium this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. J. J. O'Brien, who will give the exhibition, has been inspector of police for the past ten years in Nagasaki, Japan, where he became proficient in this form of wrestling. Jiu-jitsu is the science of catching an assailant by holds which make his efforts react upon himself. Mr. O'Brien will be assisted by a native Japanese, but after the exhibition is over has offered to show any of the holds...