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Candidates for the junior tug-of-war team are requested to meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the basement of the gymnasium...
...following-named men are candidates for the freshman tug-of-war team : Adams (capt.), Allen, Austin, Boyden, Crozier, Churchill, Dewey, Loeser...
Many were disappointed that our university tug-of-war team did not come off better in the pulls at the Polo Grounds last spring; but the ease with which they were pulled over the line was owing to the fact that they attempted to pull on the loose ground with the same theory that had proved so successful in the pulls on the cleats. It cannot be doubted that pulling on cleats is in many respects very like the way in which these tugs are now pulled out of doors, and it is certainly very much better practice...
There are ten candidates for the freshman tug-of-war team in daily practice at the gymnasium, under the direction of Capt. Adams. Although the limit of six hundred pounds prevents very large and heavy men from competing, yet the majority of the contestants are muscular and well-built, and the probability is that '86 will have no occasion to be ashamed of the record made by her team at the winter meeting...
...candidates for the freshman tug of war team are now practising in the gymnasium...