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...glorious victory remembered! The '89 Technology tug-of-war team have been presented with silver cups to commemorate their victory over '88 at their winter meeting: happy freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/22/1886 | See Source »

...team which will represent Princeton at the Inter-Collegiate games, has been chosen as follows: Throwing the hammer, Adams, Halsey: putting the shot, Cook; mile walk, Thompson; mile run, Carter, Hamilton; half mile run, Carter and Griffith; quarter mile run, Griffith, Guthrie, Hodge, Fenton; pole vaulting, H. Hodge, Toler; tug-of-war, Jamison, McClellan, Calhoun, Cowan. (anchor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 4/21/1886 | See Source »

...meeting of the Executive committee of the H. A. A. last evening, E. A. Pease, '88, was elected captain of the 'varsity tug-of-war team. A plan for having new medals substituted for the old style was delayed for further consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/16/1886 | See Source »

...tug-of-war no regular team is now in practice, but "scrub" teams are constantly at work. The members of Yale's best team for a tug-of-war have all left college, and the chances of an altogether new team winning this difficult event are very slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Candidates for the Inter-Collegiate Contest. | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

...interval between the rowing and the high kick, the Mott Haven cup, which was won last spring for the sixth time by Harvard, was brought out by President Smith. He announced the contestants who had aided in winning the victory at the Polo Grounds as follows: First prizes, the tug-of-war team, - Easton, Curtis, Remington and Pease; Wendell Baker in the 2.20 yard dash and quarter-mile run; Bradley in the running broad jump. Second prizes were won by D. C. Clark, in putting the shot, Gibson in throwing the hammer, Dean in the bicycle race, Fogg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Winter Meeting. | 3/22/1886 | See Source »

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