Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first rowing weights used at Yale consisted of open bags of sand fastened to ropes that passed over pulleys. The crew rowed twenty minutes daily and during the last three or four minutes of each pull the captain stood by with a tin cup and filled up the bags as rapidly as possible to produce the effect of a spurt...
...very little that will entitle it to public favor. The game is still a violent struggle, where beef counts for almost everything. Two lines of seven men each stand opposed, and what do they do, or rather what do they not do? They push, jostle, wrestle, block, kick, pull, tear and fight with each other. Football is still a game in which men undergo the risk of injury, and serious injury. To quote one example, five out of the twenty-two men in the Harvard-Yale game had to retire from the field on account of their injuries. Faces were...
...dark brows with a determined menace to the opposition tuggers, and was gathering the coils of rope for new heaves. After resisting passively the efforts of the Columbia men to tug away that six inches during the third minute, Harvard men began, suddenly in the fourth minute to pull as if they meant business. The prostrate Columbias wavered and almost came tumbling up from the cleats. As it was, the belt was pulled clean off of Hopke, the anchor, and the red ribbon rushed about three feet toward Harvard. Then two brave Harvard men away up in a balcony gave...
...things look now, Yale will probably beat the Pennsylvania men; at least that is the opinion of the Harvard and Columbia crews, who, I suppose are as good judges as any. Yale looks upon this race simply as a practice pull, to prepare them for their contest with Harvard, and have consequently asked to have the east course, which, though generally considered the worse, is the one which they will use in the race with our 'varsity...
...target has been set up at about seventy-five yards, and some of the men have already become excellent shots. Base-ball, too, is quite popular, "stroke" being especially skilful at this game. At half past five the crew again don their rowing clothes and take their afternoon pull. The work is harder than the morning row, as the men usually try a "timer," or take a very long, slow pull. Speaking of "timers," it may be of interest to mention what time is usually made for various distances. Anywhere from twenty to twenty-five minutes is about the average...