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Word: tugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter games at Yale '90's tug-of-war team pulled '89's by 1 1-2 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/9/1887 | See Source »

...jump, J. H. Slade, '90; standing high jump, E. H. Rogers, '87, F. B. Lund, '88; fence-vault, J. H. Slade, '60; feather-weight sparring, F. Clement, '88, Sullivan, '88; light-weight sparring, W. Austin, '87, Hillelbrand, 87; middle-weight sparring, G. M. Ashe, '87, G. W. Curtis, '90; tug-of-war, Easton, L. S., Gorham, L. S., Boyden, L. S., Pease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/7/1887 | See Source »

...usual large and close-fitting crowd was present at the gymnasium on Exeter street Saturday at the annual indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Association. The sports were as a whole very good; better than last year. Harvard men were disappointed in having the tug-of-war team beaten, but the success of their representatives in other events partially compensated for this reverse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. I. T. Games. | 3/7/1887 | See Source »

...first heat of the tug-of-war was won by the M. I. T. team. The Harvard team lost about six inches to a team from the B. Y. M. C. U. on the drop. Easton rose to the occasion, however, and won this trial heat by fifteen inches. In the final heat Harvard lost the drop to Technology by about two inches. In spite of plucky up-hill work by our team, Technology kept the advantage to the end and won by about the same distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. I. T. Games. | 3/7/1887 | See Source »

Saturday night the last of the Yale winter meetings for 1887 was held. The tug-of-war was won by the seniors. The running high jump was contested by eight men, and was won with a jump of 5 feet 6 3-4 inches by T. G. Shearman, '89. Page of Pennsylvania is considered good for 5 feet 10 1-2 inches at any time. The next event, which is of interest to Harvard men, was the pole-vault, which was won also by T. G. Shearman. He broke the Yale record with a vault of 10 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Athletic Meeting. | 3/7/1887 | See Source »

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