Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton tug-of-war team will contest in an intercollegiate pull to be given March 23rd under the auspices of the Columbia team, at a fair which the juniors of the Columbia School of Mines will hold at that time...
...candidates for the sophomore tug-of-war team have now settled down to hard work, and will continue in training until after the winter meeting. Higgins will fill his old position as anchor, McClellan will undoubtedly pull number three, and Captain DeNormandie will be in his old place at number one. This leaves only number two to be filled by a new man, and for this position there are three candidates-A. B. Nichols, J. F. Bass, and M. Nelson, jr.- any one of whom would be a good man. The team, however made up, is a very strong...
...freshman tug-of-war team will pull with the Tech freshman team at the M. I. T. games next Saturday...
...having been a member of the Hopkinson's school team. Allen and Potter are trying for anchor, and the other men are trying for positions on the rope. It is impossible as yet to know the make-up of the team. Potter or Allen will probably anchor, and Motte pull number two. The other men trying are of the usual weight but they lack experience. Before the first winter-meeting takes place, it is probable that the captain of the team will arrange several tugs to be pulled with amateur teams in and about Cambridge. The candidates for the team...
...will be 650 pounds, but the intercollegiate tug-of-war will be under the rules of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The following events will take place on the first' night, Friday, March 15: Fencing (open to Yale men only); horizontal bar (open to Yale and Second regiment); exhibition pull of the champion Yale crew; regimental tug-of-war (open to Second Regiment only); intercollegiate tug-of-war; regimental mile run, handicap, (open to Second Regiment); bayonet race open to all amateurs); regimental mile walk, handicap (open to Second Regiment); 50 yards dash (open to officers of Second Regiment only); half...