Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mile run was another feature of the games and was won by Harvard in 4 m. 53 1-4 sec. The tug-of-war between '90 and '91 proved very exciting. '90 won the drop by about three inches and held it for three minutes, when '91 began to pull the rope over to their side and finally won by about four inches. In the evening a reception was tendered Mr. A. B. Coxe, '87, the captain of last year's athletic team, who was presented with a miniature Mott Haven cup, one side of which is engraved with...
...race with Columbia, we are heartily in favor of its discontinuance. There is little use in using up our crew for its contest with Yale, and that is about all the good that the Columbia race does. If the affair was nothing but a practice pull, it would be a good thing, but it has ceased to be that. It has become a hard, stubborn fight and presupposing that the Yale race is no walk-over, no eight men can pull the four miles the second time in one week, with a fair prospect for success. The boat club would...
...sliding seat equalizes the men in the boat who differ one from the other in length of trunk and limbs, permitting a man with a short reach to slide a little further than another with long arms, so to catch the water at the same angle and pull through a stroke of the same length. Without the slide no amount of rowing together would equalize the stroke; the short man would have to catch later or finish later than the long man, the result of which is, of course, unsteadiness in the boat and diminution of speed; for racing craft...
...been found that the Princeton tug-of-war team is somewhat under weight. Therefore, one heavier man can pull on the team. Black, '88, will probably be man who will be selected to bring the team up to weight...
Considerable interest has been taken in a device invented by Irving Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it, and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully reproduces the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke...