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...Tug-of-war team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mott Haven Entries. | 5/22/1891 | See Source »

...very evident that the college as a whole takes no interest at all in the tug-of-war. There are at least a dozen men in college who have had experience in pulling either on the class or 'varsity teams, but of these only one has been induced to come out this year. Capt. Moen has left the matter entirely in charge of Robb '93, who anchored on the freshman last year. The training consists at present of five or six pulls of two minutes each against a wagon spring, light work on the chest-weights and a short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tug-of-War for the Intercollegiate Games. | 5/20/1891 | See Source »

...candidates for the tug-of-war team will meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 5/5/1891 | See Source »

...rule" brought the whole matter under the jurisdiction of the Athletic Committee. The favorable action of this committee settles it that the first annual meeting will be held on Holmes Field, May 16. The events contested will be the same as at the intercollegiate meeting except that the tug-of-war will be omitted. The full text of the agreement which is to govern these meetings will be published in a few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of the Athletic Committee. | 4/16/1891 | See Source »

...advisement. In all probability the cup, offered by the New York graduates, will be accepted, and in this event the contest of this year will take place at Cambridge on May 16,-the events to be the same as those at the regular intercollegiate meeting save that the tug-of-war will be dropped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale-Harvard Athletic Meeting. | 4/9/1891 | See Source »

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