Word: shearman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last intercollegiate games a warm dispute occurred as to whether T. G. Shearman, Jr., of Yale, should be entitled to use the pole owned by R. G. Leavitt of Harvard, in the pole vaulting competition. The measurers were divided on the subject; but as two are a majority of three, their decision was that the Harvard man should lend his pole. The subject, being such a novel one, has been much canvassed in athletic circles during the past week, and the universal opinion seems to be that if a man takes his own private pole to a competition...
...Shearman, professor of Philosophy at Cornell, has accepted invitations to deliver Commencement orations in June at Wellesley College and at the Ohio University...
Running broad jump-Shearman, Yale, '87, 21ft. 71/2in.; Shearman, Yale...
Pole vault-Won by Leavitt of Harvard, 10ft, 5 1-2in; Shearman, Yale, second, 9ft, 11 1-2 in; Walsh, Columbia, third...
Running broad jump-T. G. Shearman, Yale, 22ft, 6in; Mapes, Columbia, second...