Word: tugging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tug-of-war contest in Philadelphia on Saturday night Princeton pulled Cornell and Columbia pulled Princeton, Columbia winning by about six inches...
...meeting was brought to a close by the final tug-of-war between '89 and '91, for the class championship. '89 won an inch on the drop, and continually increased their advantage without many heaves, so that before three minutes they had two inches, at four and a half minutes three inches, and when time was called five inches. Higgins, anchor of '91, did not get his legs fairly straightened out during the tug and would probably have lost a foot or more of rope in another minute...
...tug-of-war between Princeton and Columbia at the games given at Princeton, for the benefit of the base ball team, Columbia pulled Princeton four inches...
...Dabney '91, H. S. McPherson, '91. Bantam weight sparring.- H. S. McPherson '91, G. S. McPherson '89. Fencing.- H. F. Allen, Jr. '92, J. M. Morton, Jr., '91, S. Dexter, 2nd, '90, J. E. Lincoln '92. Horizontal bar.- H. F. Allen Jr., '92, J. P. Lee '91. Tug-of-war.- '89 and '91. Flying fings exhibition.- W. T. Pilsbury...
Ninety-one got the drop by six inches, and steadily increased this distance throughout the whole tug, so that they had, when the time was up, 4 feet, 4inches...