Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following events will be contested at the Cornell winter athletic games: Standing high jump, running high jump, single vaulting, double vaulting, high kicking, boxing-heavy and light weights, wrestling-heavy and light weights, fencing, slow race-bicycles, fancy riding-bicycles, parallel bars, horizontal bars, rings, Indian clubs, potato race, mile walk, tug-of-war, climbing rope...
...running high jump was chiefly a contest between C. H. Atkinson, '85, and M. W. Ford, of the N. Y. A. C. Both have the same record, 5 feet 8 1-2 inches. Twice Atkinson failed at 5 feet 6 1-4 inches, but succeeded the third time. He then jumped 5 feet 7 1-4 inches, at which height Ford failed...
...athletic games of the South Boston Athletic Club held last Saturday evening, the standing high jump was won by a record of 4 ft. 9 inch, the running high jump, 5 ft. 4 in. and the high kick, 8 ft. 4 1-2 in. No time was taken in the runs on account of the small size of the track...
...number of entries for the winter sports of the Union Amateur Athletic Club, which will be held at the Institute Rink, next Wednesday evening, is larger this year than ever before.-Among the contestants are the following gentlemen from the Harvard Athletic Association; C. H. Atkinson, '85, running high jump; Wendell Baker, '86, quarter mile run; E. A. Thomson, '87, mile run, (handicap.) There will also be a tug-of-war team from the Harvard Law School...
...athlete in the country. The prize will be a gold medal valued at $100, and the events will be as follows. Running 100, 220, 440 and 880 yards, and 1 and 5 miles; 120 yards hurdle race 10 obstacles 3 feet 6 inches high; walking 1 mile; running high jump; pole vaulting; throwing the hammer and 56 pound weight, and putting the shot and Graeco-Roman wrestling...