Word: tug-of-war
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There is one event included in the contests for the inter-collegiate cup to which we do not think the Athletic Association pays sufficient attention. We refer to the tug-of-war contest, which is passed over as of secondary importance by the officers of the association. As the sports will be exceedingly close this year, and every effort must be made to retain the emblem which we have held for so many years, it seems a good time for training more carefully than heretofore a team for this event. We can of course have no regular trainer for this...
...tug-of-war teams are already practising at Yale...
...pole-vault was won by Toler, '85, Princeton, who holds the best record of 10 feet 1 inch. He had already tired himself by pulling on his tug-of-war team, but nevertheless vaulted in magnificent form making 10 feet. Harriman, '83, Princeton, was second, stopping at 9 feet 6 inches. Soren failed at 8 feet and did not vault in his usual form. Toler's style of vaulting was very different from that of the other competitors. He did not seem to rely so much on his run and threw his body largely with his arms...
Harvard pulls Columbia in first heat of tug-of-war. The other drawings are, C. C. N. Y. vs. Lafayette, Princeton vs. Cornell, University of Pennsylvania...
...inter-collegiate sports we have good entries to make in the mile, half-mile, mile walk, bicycle race, running broad jump and tug-of-war. Formerly, when the I. C. A. A. was just started, the university used to win about as many events as any other college, but now we only average one first prize a year. Although we derived consolation when the dead heat was pulled with the winners of the tug-of-war last year, from our bad luck in drawing for the trial heats - alone preventing us from winning, as we really had the strongest team...