Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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YALE QUARTERS.- The freshmen were the first to get on to the river this afternoon, and worked under the direction of J. O. Rogers. The men were given only short spins and did not row in very good form, their difficulty being their inability to pull together well...
...Freshman companies will meet at 4.30 Tuesday afternoon with the other companies. It is hoped that the Freshman companies will turn out in such numbers as to remove all doubt of patriotism in the class. A strong and steady pull together at this time will do much to strengthen the position of the class in the University...
...Freshman crew have been in their shell only a short time and still display an extreme roughness and jerkiness in their movements and a bad clip at the beginning and the end of the stroke. The crew as a whle pull individually and fail to get together properly...
During the present month the second tests of the course will be made in the "dip" and "pull-up" and the advance made during the year in these tests will be noted with interest. The object of these strength tests is to ascertain how much the drills effect the total results. At the beginning of the college year the average "pull-up" for the class was 9.7, the average "push" 5.3, and the average total strength 1,641 pounds, which are considered very creditable figures...
...easily Noyes and Hackett, Yale, the score standing 6-2, 6-4. In the singles, Richard Hooker, Yale, won from D. H. Fuller, Cornell, 6-3, 8-6. Leo Ware and M. D. Whitman came together and Whitman won, 6-3, 6-3. Ware made a hard effort to pull out the second set but failed...