The first Rope Pull took place in 1884 in the woods west of the Mount Hermon campus; successive contests happened on the athletic field. The event became a junior-senior rivalry in 1925, when the seniors challenged the juniors to a rope pull after having lost a softball game. In 1926 the contest was moved to the banks of Shadow Lake, where it’s held every fall. The school owns a special rope used only for the occasion, which is considered a rite of passage for juniors and seniors, not to mention a rollicking way to start the year.
