Word: tuggings
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...first sophomore class in four years that has pulled the freshmen in the tug...
...winter sports at Princeton the '88 pulled the '89 tug-of-war team by four feet...
...second winter meeting at Yale, Brown, '86, won the high kick, 8 feet 10 3-4 inches. The '87 S. tug-of-war team beat the college '87 team by 13 inches...
...last event of the afternoon was the tug-of-war between the teams of '88 and '89. It was, to say the least, a very tame affair. '88 got the drop by about two inches and by three or four heaves during the allotted five minutes, managed to gain four inches more. The freshmen were unable to gain an inch and time was called with '88 in possession of six inches of rope. The two teams were composed as follows: '88, 1. E. A. Pease, 2. J. R. Purdon, 3. P. Chase, anchor, F. G. Balch...
...exceptions, were well contested. One noticeable feature of the meeting was the absence of that utter disregard of other people's pleasure which is exhibited when one half of an audience persists in standing up and shutting off the view of the other half. Neither were the tug-of-war teams suffocated by a dense mass of sympathic humanity crowding about them in a vain effort to bring them victory. The officers of the association may well feel gratified at the result of this, the first meeting of the year...