Word: roped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Running high jump-J. P. Lee, H. A. A, T. G. Shearman, and D. G. Tenney, Yale A. A, F. C. Hooper, Columbia A. A, R. G. Leavitt, H. A. A. Rope climbing-H. French, and J. L. Batchelder, Jr, M. I. T, Barney, J. Crane. Jr., and C. E. Curry, H. A. A, F. M. Hartshorne, Columbia. Two-hand fence vault-A. H. Green, and G. A. Pearson, H. A. A, F. M. Har shorne, Columbia, D. G. Tenney, Yale A. A. Tug-of-war-Columbia, C. H. Hart, E. C. Robinson, Edwin Harris (capt), anchor, G. M. Elliot...
...rope climbing was won by Howland '90, who beat Pope '90, by half a second...
...that before three minutes they had two inches, at four and a half minutes three inches, and when time was called five inches. Higgins, anchor of '91, did not get his legs fairly straightened out during the tug and would probably have lost a foot or more of rope in another minute...
...winter meeting of the Cornell A. A. took place last Monday. Records were broken in rope-climbing and in the running high jump...
...record of 8 feet, 6 inches, made by Moore in 1887. In the high jump, McLanahan, '92, won with apparent ease, by a jump of 5 feet, 1 inch, Roddy, '91, and Small, '92, tying for second place. Mr. Stoll, of Staten Island Athletic Club, gave an exhibition of rope climbing, making the 35 feet in 10 1-5 seconds. There was only one bout in heavy weight wrestling, contested by Huston, '89, and Pierson, '90, won by Huston. Mr. Molineux of the New York Athletics, and amateur champion of America, won the horizontal bar, after an exhibition of very...