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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Running high jump...
...Running broad jump...
...Running high jump...
...race in 20 seconds, Cowdin of Harvard winning the second in 19 3/4 seconds, and the final heat easily in 19 2/5 seconds. The other sports worthy of mention were: Throwing the hammer, won by Larkin of Princeton by a throw of 87 feet 1 inch; the running high jump, won by Conover of Columbia by a jump of 5 feet 8 1/4 inches; and the standing broad jump, won by Larkin of Princeton at 10 feet 3 inches, - all three being the best amateur records in America...
Other events were: Standing high jump, Larkin, Princeton, 4 feet 6 3/4 inches; graduate mile-walk, E. J. McIlvane, University of Pennsylvania, 8 minutes 50 4/5 seconds; graduate 100-yard dash, W. Waller, Columbia, 11 1/5 seconds; half-mile run, C. H. Cogswell, Dartmouth, 2 minutes 12 seconds; two-mile walk, R. H. Sayre, Columbia, 16 minutes 49 2/5 seconds; pole aulting, J. B. Waller, Princeton, and F. H. Lee, Columbia, tied at 9 feet...