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...first year of the interscholastic games, only three schools competed. The events were run off at Southborough, St. Mark's Schol being the meet host. Among the events listed in this meet were the tug-of-war, throwing the baseball, and the one mile walk. The winner of the 100-yard dash tore down the cinders to break the tape in 10 4-5 seconds, only 4-5 of a second more than the present interscholastic record...
...caused by retardation of development in the egg. Whether this is true of the human ovum remains to be proved. What is true is that identical twins are the closest approximation to different human beings with exactly the same heredity. They form the original rope for the tug of war between Heredity and Environment...
...Wistful Youth makes a furtive and abortive effort to salvage his trousers. He is thwarted by a vicious tug at his ankle...
...four years on the University eleven. From that first connection is traceable the growth of a personality that was, with Walter Camp's one of the most profound forces in American sport. When radicals would have turned the game into an event of no more sporting significance than a tug-of-war, or would have made it over into a kind of outdoor basketball, his was always among the first of the restraining hands. He recognized the place of football in American sport, and would not see it undergo a usurpation at the hands of rule makers...
...Wasn't that splendid of the Queen? She had asked previously about our visit in London and then wanted to know about our wonderful visit to Paris, and so the Queen, just as any other woman might do, reached over and gave me a tug on the sleeve...