Word: roped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there was no enthusiasm whatever. The supporters of both teams gave the players very little encouragement, and the absence of mascots and a band was noticeable-in short the game lacked many of those features which add so much to a class game. The field was not surrounded by rope and at times the crowd got on the field. The second game of the series will be played this afternoon on Jarvis Field, simultan eously with the game on Holmes Field...
Monday morning as a large dredge was going up the river it drifted across the bow line of the 'varsity launch thus pulling the rope so tight that the launch was overturned. It immediately filled with water and sank. The the dredging company put men at work Monday night and at low tide the launch was raised, Pumped out, and was ready for crew practice yesterday afternoon. The accident happened at a very unfortunate time as Perkins, captain of the '84 crew, had come up from New York to aid in coaching the crew and without the launch he could...
...meeting lasted about three hours and comprised, in addition to these events, rope climbing, running high kick, standing high jump and trial heats of the dash. In addition to the Harvard men there were representatives from the B. A. A., Technology and one or two local schools. R. S. Hale '91, and G. L. Batchelder '92, were judges, while Mr. Lathrop timed the events...
...preliminary tournament, and March 14 for the final. The following events have been chosen: Preliminary-heavyweight boxing, middle-weight boxing, light-weight boxing, feather-weight boxing, fencing; final-tumbling, horizontal bar, parallel bars, flying rings, high kick, running high jump, standing high jump, fence vault, putting the shot, rope climbing...
...list of events differs from last year's in that the tug-of-war has been excluded and fencing, rope climbing, and bantam-weight boxing substituted. The directors of the meeting are: Walier '91, Riley '91, Whitney '92 and Draper...