Word: tug-of-war
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...victory of '89 in the light-weight wrestling in part compensated for their defeat by the champion tug-of-war team...
...second winter meeting at Yale, Brown, '86, won the high kick, 8 feet 10 3-4 inches. The '87 S. tug-of-war team beat the college '87 team by 13 inches...
...last event of the afternoon was the tug-of-war between the teams of '88 and '89. It was, to say the least, a very tame affair. '88 got the drop by about two inches and by three or four heaves during the allotted five minutes, managed to gain four inches more. The freshmen were unable to gain an inch and time was called with '88 in possession of six inches of rope. The two teams were composed as follows: '88, 1. E. A. Pease, 2. J. R. Purdon, 3. P. Chase, anchor, F. G. Balch...
...tug-of-war team will be constituted this afternoon as follows: Perry, anchor, Monroe, Rantoul and Hunter...
There is every prospect of the meeting to-day being very uninteresting. There are no entries in the heavy weight sparring and only two men are in the middle weight, which, with the tug-of-war will constitute the only enjoyable part of the meeting. The wrestling is inevitably tedious if the men are well matched, and farcical if they are not. With this gloomy outlook before us, the least the stewards can do is to make everything go off as quickly as possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also...