Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale will make a desperate effort to capture the all around championship cup in the Mott Haven games. It has never yet had that pleasure. In putting the shot and throwing the ham mer, in the broad jump, in the 100 yards, and in hurdle, the wearers of the blue and white will probably render a good account of themselves, but parental fears will probably nip their all-around championship aspirations in the bud. The parents of Brooks and Hamilton regard athletic training as just a trifle less dangerous than working a battery on Cemetery Hill, and the blue...
...mile run, half-mile run, quarter-mile run, 220 yards dash, 100 yards dash, 120 yards hurdle race, one mile walk, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault, two mile bicycle race...
...will represent Columbia are as follows: 100 and 220 yards, Mapes, Phillips and Denickson; 440 yards, Denickson, Stackpoole, and Phillips; half-mile run, Ware, Tyler, Cohen, Gardiner, and G. Stephens; one-mile run, Ware, Brandt, Haukesworth, A. C. Smith, Wilson and Dempsey; one-mile walk, Ware and Warren; broad jump, Mapes, Boaz and Wayland; high jump, Richards and Aldridge; 120 yards hurdle, Bostwick and Safford; pole vault, Stephens; hammer and shot, Dresser; two mile bicycle, Renton, H. Y. Smith, and Gage. The tug-of-war team is not yet chosen, but J. Wheatly will be captain. From the above list...
...behind it a comfortable, covered grand-stand. The quarter-mile track surrounding the field has been put into excellent condition, and the candidates for the Mott Haven team exercise on it daily under the direction of their trainer, Pennell. They have three first-class men, Page in the high jump, Faines in the mile run, and Kohler in the bicycle race. Several other candidates are promising well, and some of the most sanguine spirits think that Pennsylvania's chances for the inter-collegiate cup this year are fair to say the least...
...University of Pennsylvania still possesses several winners in former inter-collegiate contests. Farries of the Medical School won the mile run in 1884 and 1885, with a record of 4 minutes, 40 seconds. Page, '88, holds the amateur championship of America in the running high jump, with the tremendous record of 6 feet, 1-4 in. Brenton, '88, is said to have cleared 21 feet, 4 inches, in the broad jump. Kohler, '87, is the rival of Renton of the University of Pennsylvania in the bicycle race. As it is probable that neither Hamilton of Yale nor Dean of Harvard...