Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice pull of three minutes, yesterday afternoon, between the '89 and '90 tug-of-war teams, '89 pulled '90 two inches...
...Athletic Association of the Twelfth Regiment. All the events will be handicapped by Hegeman, A. A. U. All amateurs are permitted to enter for the following events: 60-yards dash, 440-yards run, 220-yards hurdle race, one mile run, two-mile bicycle race, one-mile walk, tug-of-war, admitting teams of four men each from any company or regiment in the National Guard or Amateur Club...
...annual winter meeting at Exeter will be held next Saturday. The following events will be contested: Bar vaulting, putting the shot, standing high jump, club swinging, high kick, horizontal bar, tumbling, parallel bars, running high jump and tug-of-war. First prizes will be given in all events, and where there are four or more entries second prizes will be awarded. There are fourteen entries for putting the shot, eight for the high kick and eight for the running high jump. There is a good number of contestants in the other events also. The principal interest of the meeting will...
...bell exercise. The sprinters, for a short run, take advantage of the cinder sidewalk which extends from the gymnasium to North Avenue. Noble, '88, and Slade, '90, are training for the hurdle race this year, and it is possible that Capt. Lund will also enter in this event. The tug-of-war men are hard at work, but the '90 team is the only one which is yet finally made up. It will consist of R. Jones, E. E. Jones, Piper and Amory (anchor). It is slightly over-weight, but will have no difficulty in training down the few requisite...
...only other event Friday evening which was of especial interest to college men was the tug-of-war between Columbia and Yale. Yale got the drop by an inch and held it for two minutes. Then Columbia brought the centre over the scratch and held it until the very end of the time, when Yale took an inch and a half and won by that amount...