Word: tug-of-war
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...Faculty of Trinity College has forbidden any student to pull on the tug-of-war team without parents' permission and a doctor's certificate; and will prohibit it altogether next year...
...Trinity Faculty has passed a vote forbidding any student to pull in the tug-of-war without the consent of his parent and a doctor's certificate, and has also decided to abolish tug-of-war next year...
...amendments passed by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association were in every way to the interest of modern sport, and to the credit of Harvard as originator. In proposing the abolition of the tug-of-war and the substitution of the safety for the ordinary bicycle race. Harvard was prompted by the spirit which is governing all pure athletics of the present day. The mere trial of brute strength has ceased to be the main object of sport, and greater precautions are being taken to secure the safety of the competitors from unnecessary accidents. It was in this spirit of having athletics...
...Tug-of-war. - First heat, '94 against '95, won by '94 by 13 inches...
...Tug-of-war. - Second heat, '94 won by 4 inches...