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...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...
...resulted in a walk-over for your college, the first four men being from Harvard. F. R. Dana won in two minutes and one second. The mile run was another feature of the games and was won by Harvard in 4 m. 53 1-4 sec. The tug-of-war between '90 and '91 proved very exciting. '90 won the drop by about three inches and held it for three minutes, when '91 began to pull the rope over to their side and finally won by about four inches. In the evening a reception was tendered Mr. A. B. Coxe...
...seven tug-of-war contests between '90 and '91 at Cornell, '90 won five, '91 won one, and one was tied...
...Columbia sophomores have challenged the freshmen to a series of tug-of-war contests to take the place of the customary rushes...