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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...latter height. Then the bar was lowered to 4 feet 8 inches again, and the contestants tried to decide for second place. None were able to jump this height, and the bar had to be lowered several more times before Wason and Bean managed to clear it. Bean finally won with a jump of 4 feet 8 inches to his credit...
...plan was adopted for the rope climbing. Instead of hampering the climbers with a belt and a safety rope, a canvas was held underneath to catch the men if they fell. Only three out of the seven contestants appeared. C. E. Curry '89, won in 14 1-5 seconds, with H. French, M. I. T, second, in 18 1-4 seconds, and J. Crane Jr., '90, third in 20 1-4 seconds...
...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, and at three minutes 1 1-2 inches. Perry was caught soon after this trying to heave and lost about 3 inches more...
...inches. From this point the contest was extremely interesting, for first one man and then another failed on his first trial, but cleared the bar on his second or third attempt. Lee dropped out on 5 7 1-4 inches; Shearman cleared 5 feet, 8 inches, and won, as Leavitt, whose best jump was 5 feet 7 1-4 inches, could not reach this height. The bar was then raised to 5 feet, 8 5-8 inches, when Shearman touched it in his jump, but did not knock it off. This was five-eighths of an inch above his best...
...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...