Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to urge upon the athletic association the need of taking immediate steps for holding weekly contests in jumping, pole vaulting, and the tug-of-war in the gymnasium during the next term. As out-door exercise is practically out of the question during the winter months, the gymnasium should be used by the candidates for the Mott Haven team to the best advantage. The special contests to which we refer were held Thursday evenings last year, and contributed in no small degree to the success of the Mott Haven team last spring. Prizes should be offered...
...Hallowell, a member of last year's graduating class. It is on Harvard University and presents all the leading features of our yearly athletic events. The author gives a detailed account of the organization and subsequent work of the athletic association, and adds a picture of '88's famous tug-of-war team in the act of "dropping." The history of our base ball association, with the group of last year's nine, is added. The article is to be continued in the next number of the Outing...
...Yale tug-of-war team has begun training. The position of anchor is still vacant...
...athletic associations of Princeton, Yale and Columbia have received invitations from the officers of the twenty-third Regiment of New York, to participate in the games of this regiment which are to take place shortly. Each of these colleges will send representative tug-of-war teams, the pulls to be governed by the intercollegiate rules, each team to weight six hundred pounds or less...
TUG-OF-WAR.The tug-of-war contests were very close and Harvard's victory was a hard-earned one. Harvard pulled Princeton 10 inches and Columbia one-half inch. Yale pulled Swarthmore two inches. In the final heat Harvard pulled Yale three-quarters of an inch...