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The Hope College Pull
The Hope College Pull (The Pull) is an annual tug-of-war contest held across the Black River in Holland, Michigan on the fourth Saturday after Labor Day. It is sponsored by Hope College and is one of the nation's oldest standing college traditions. Competitors are 40 members of both the freshman and sophomore class. The freshman team is coached by juniors while the sophomore team is coached by seniors. Each Pull Team is named for the graduating year of that class. For example, the 14 (pronounced one-four) Pull Team was composed entirely of students expected to graduate in 2014 plus the coaches expected to graduate in 2012 who were members of the 12 (one-two) Pull Team. Teams that graduate in even year (such as 2014) are Even Year Pull Teams, whereas those who graduate in odd years are Odd Year Pull Teams.
== History ==
The first record of The Pull is a brief mention of a tug-of-war in Hope's newspaper, ''The Anchor'' in 1898. Between then and the first Pull with a recorded victor in 1909 there is no recorded history of The Pull or "the tug" as it was referred to then. The Pull was cancelled in 1918, 1943, and 1944 because of the First and Second World Wars.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hope.edu/pr/pull/glance.html )〕 Methods of pulling have shifted greatly over the years. Pictures as early as 1927 show Pullers in pits similar to the way they look now, however pits were not consistent practice until the 1960s〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hope.edu/pr/pull/gallery.html )〕 The precise strategy used from year-to-year changes fairly often, especially call sets (the moves by which the Pull Team uses to move in a synchronized manner). A new method is often desired to gain an edge over the opponent. There was a draw in 1916. In 1926, The Pull was again called a draw, and was settled by a basketball game, which the sophomore class of 1929 won. A third draw was called in 1952. 1956 saw the shortest Pull at 2 minutes and 40 seconds. The following year, 1957, The Pull was cancelled due to a campus-wide flu epidemic. The longest Pull was held in 1977 and lasted 3 hours and 51 minutes, to be called a draw. This was the last draw called. Following that grueling Pull, the constitution was re-written to what it currently is, allowing no more than 3 hours for one team to beat the other, requiring the rope gained to be measured at the 3 hour mark in order to determine the winner. The shortest Pull since these new rules was in 2008 when the 11 Pull Team took 71 feet of rope from the 12 Pull Team in only 67 minutes. The following year, the 12 Pull Team took a record 82 feet, 6 inches from the 13 Pull Team in 69 minutes. In 2013, a new rope was purchased by the college for The Pull. In 2014 the 17 Pull team broke the all-time record for The Pull by taking 90 ft 4 in of rope from the freshman 18 team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hope.edu/pr/pull/glance.html )〕
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