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Dartmouth has entered into field athletics with a great deal of enthusiasm this fall. At the fall meeting on Thursday, three records were broken, two of them by both firsts and seconds. The tug-of-war was won by eighty-eight...
FINAL TUG-OF-WAR.Last on the programme came the final pull of the tug-of-war between Harvard and Lafayette. It was an exciting time, Yale had won the four first prizes, and Harvard only three. To win the cup, the tug-of-war must be taken by Harvard. The rival colleges howled for Lafayette, and our delegation cheered for Harvard. At the drop our team was successful, and soon they had six inches to their credit. Then our men sat still and let the Lafayette men try to take the rope back. Easton, however, sat it out calmly, and could...
...TUG-OF-WAR TRIALS.There were four teams which actually contested in this event, those of Lafayette, Leigh, Columbia and Harvard. A fifth from St. Johns was ruled out because of an improper belt, and the Pennsylvania team did not turn up. Lafayette made easy work of the Columbias, and the Harvard men had to pull the Leigh team, their old antagonists of a year ago. The result was that at the end our men had pulled fourteen inches away from Lehigh. This left Lafayette and Harvard to contest for the final heat, the last event on the programme...
...tug-of-war pulled a strong team in Lynn last evening. This is their last practice before leaving for New York...
...grounds both short and narrow, a state of affairs which necessitated somewhat of a change in their style of play. Each side played with ten men instead of twelve. During the last twenty minutes Harvard played without a goal keeper, Easton being compelled to leave to pull with the tug-of-war team at Lynn. The game was called at 6.15, and Cambridge won the first goal after a struggle of twelve minutes. From that moment until time was called, at the end of three-quarters of an hour of play, the Harvard team had things pretty much their...