The 1891 Bowdoin College Tug Of War Team
Posted on Friday, March 18th, 2016 by John Wood
This hardy looking bunch is the 1891 Bowdoin College Tug of War Team: Top row, left to right: John Roberts Horne Jr. ’91 (Anchor); J. P. Cilley, Jr., ’91; G. C. Mahoney, ’91; and G. B. Sears, ’90. (The manager H.H. Hastings; (’90) was not pictured.) They were undefeated that season, beating Colby College (at Waterville) by four inches and Bates College (at Bowdoin) by sixteen inches.