Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell, as well as every college in the Inter-collegiate A. A., has received an invitation to send a tug o' war team to the games of the Seventh Regiment, to be held at their armory on April 9th. Entries will be open till March 29th. It is not expected that the Harvard team will pull. - Cornell Sun. Then go ahead, Cornell...
Candidates for the '87 tug-of-war team will meet at the gymnasium at four...
...candidates for the Yale tug-of-war team are working hard to wrest that event from Harvard at the Mott Haven games in New York. Davidson, '88, is anchoring in the absence of Stewart...
...Princeton tug-of-war teams have begun practice in the gymnasium...
...real science of the tug-of-war was yet to come, however. In 1882 the belt was introduced, by means of which the strain on the rope was made constant, and could be increased permanently at the will of either anchor. At present it is the object of both teams to drop as quickly as possible, the best teams giving a heave as they go down, and gaining several inches thereby. There are two ways of lying on the ropes, but all Harvard men pull with one leg across the rope, and the body resting on one side. The back...