Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no tug-of-war team at present. Captain Mandell will endeavor to have the rules governing the tug-of-war revised with a view to making them more definite as to what is allowed and what is not. The spring meeting will come either on April...
...considerable experience in this kind of work, having filled a similar position at the University of Pennsylvania, where he developed Keen. He will come the last of this month and be with the men for a month before the games. Little interest is manifested in the tug-of-war although four of last year's team are in college and Yale ought to take second in the event...
...candidates for the Yale university tug-of-war team met last Saturday in the gymnasium. Only five men presented themselves. Watrous, L. S.; Billman, Hosmer, H. Webster and R. Morris, all of '92. The men met yesterday and began regular training...
...next event was the first bout in the tug-of-war, which was to be decided by the best two out of three five-minute pulls, instead of a single tug as usual. The teams were as follows: Columbia-1, C. H. Hart; 2, E. C. Robinson; 3, E. Harris, (capt.); G. M. Elliot, (anchor). Harvard-1, E. W. Grew; 2, F. O. Raymond, Jr.; 3, J. Endicott, (captain); G. Perry, (anchor). Columbia won 1 inch on the drop, but retained only half an inch at the end of the first minute. At two minutes Columbia had 1 inch again...
...second and final heat in the tug-of-war brought the meeting to a close. Columbia won half an inch on the drop, but this was soon recovered by Harvard, with half an inch more. The strain was clearly too much for Perry, however, and at the end of two minutes, Columbia had pulled an inch of the rope to their side. From this time they kept increasing their advantage, until they had 5 inches at the end of four minutes, and a foot when time was called. The arrangements on the shoulders of the Columbia rope men evidently gave...