Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening a class in heavier gymnastics exercises under his guidance. In the afternoon during the common recreation hour the floor is crowded and all the apparatus is in use. The candidates for the Mott Haven team, usually about sixty in number, have not commenced work yet, but the class tug-of-war teams are practicing for the coming series, and others not athletically inclined, who work only to improve their physical condition, swell this number...
There are ten men in active training for the Columbia tug-of-war team...
There is to be a tug-of-war competition between teams representing local boat-clubs to-morrow evening in Union Hall, Cambridge port...
...work during the winter the association has offered prizes in several events to be contested for at different times during the winter, the prizes finally to go, roughly speaking, to the winners of the most contests. The events in which the prizes are to be offered are the tug-of-war, handicap high jumping and putting the shot. It is hoped that the prizes may lead to a considerable development in each of these lines. The plan is not a new one, as last year a cup was offered in a similar way for high jumping...
Yale has never been noted for the success of her tug-of-war team, although there is no scarcity of good material in college. Last season the meeting with Columbia at the armory did much to awaken an interest in that sport here, and the team which represented Yale last Spring was the best she ever sent out. This fall a series of pulls between six teams representing the entire university, have been arranged, each team to pull three times with every other team, and the final pull to be a feature of the winter games. It is hoped...