Word: tug-of-war
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...Yale tug-of-war team has begun training. The position of anchor is still vacant...
...athletic associations of Princeton, Yale and Columbia have received invitations from the officers of the twenty-third Regiment of New York, to participate in the games of this regiment which are to take place shortly. Each of these colleges will send representative tug-of-war teams, the pulls to be governed by the intercollegiate rules, each team to weight six hundred pounds or less...
TUG-OF-WAR.The tug-of-war contests were very close and Harvard's victory was a hard-earned one. Harvard pulled Princeton 10 inches and Columbia one-half inch. Yale pulled Swarthmore two inches. In the final heat Harvard pulled Yale three-quarters of an inch...
...strength tests, the members of the 'varsity tug-of-war team have pulled the following amounts: F. G. Balch, anchor, 1760 lbs. (with belt on); P. Chase, 946 lbs.; C. H. Baldwin, 836 lbs.; E. A. Pease, 946 lbs., making a total of 4,448 lbs. for the team. In computing the amounts, a kilogram was taken as 2 1-5 pounds. Amory, '90, and Munro, '89, will go to New York as substitutes...
...Downs also finished well. Time 4m. 43 4-5s. Pennypacker and Gibson now threw the hammer. In this event Gibson broke the Harvard record, held last by D. B. Chamberlain, '86, at 90 ft. 1 in. His best throw was 92 ft. 4 in. A second tug-of-war was here pulled between the 'Varsity and the following team: E: W. Grew, '89; F. O. Raymond. '89; J. Endicott, '89, and G. Perry, '89; (anchor). The 'Varsity again won, this time by 3 1-2in. The 220-yards dash ended the track events. J. W. Merrill...