Tug-of-war is everyone happy of mass sports, which has a long history of the development in the world countries, and now is very popular. This article discusses the origin and development of tug of war. Through the stress distribution analysis of the athletes in process of the tug-of-war, points out that the tug of war victory not only is related to the size of the athletes hard, what is more important , related to the athletes about the direction of the force and skill. According to theoretical analysis of the athletes force and friction, we are more likely to win in the real tug of war.