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...tug-of-war team from the Blues of the Second Regiment, C. N. G, will pull against a light-weight team from Yale this evening at 8 o'clock in the college gymnasium. The team from Yale will be Casement, Crall, Lowe, Loveland (anchor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/21/1888 | See Source »

...from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will receive prizes. Yale will send men to the games and will be represented in the dashes and in the hurdle race. Yale, Princeton and Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Games at Brooklyn. | 3/20/1888 | See Source »

...indoor games of Company A, Twenty-third Regiment, in New York, on April 7th, there will be a tug-of-war confined to college teams. Yale, Princeton and Columbia have already entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/20/1888 | See Source »

...tug-of-war between '88 and '89 was the last event of the meeting. The victory for '88 was almost a foregone conclusion. In spite of this fact, however, the '89 team pulled very pluckily. The senior team got the drop by one quarter of an inch, and soon pulled away an inch or so more. Balch caught Perry as he came down to heave and the ribbon was six inches on the '88 side. Perry, by skillful handling of the rope and by the plucky work of the team, succeeded in getting back all but an inch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Second Winter Meeting. | 3/19/1888 | See Source »

...very probable that McPherson will pull on the '89 tug-of-war team this afternoon in place of Marquand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/17/1888 | See Source »

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