Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard won the toss and chose the western goal. Pennsylvania started the game with a ten yard gain made by the flying wedge...
...victorious Yale eleven was run with superb management on the part of Captain Hinkey. They followed out a well defined policy with perfect coolness and confidence. Their tactics were finely adapted to the conditions which were brought about by their luck in winning the toss. With the wind at their backs they played strictly a kicking game and gained enormously by it. Harvard was not able to punt more than half the distance against the strong wind, consequently she was put upon the offensive for the greater part of the first half...
...advantage which Yale gained by winning the toss and her choice of goals certainly told largely in her favor, but it was purely the result of luck. Harvard cannot and will not lay either Yale's victory or Harvard's defeat to the toss of a coin, no matter what its significance may seem to be. Her sportsmanlike spirit will assert itself here as elsewhere and give to Yale the credit of having won fairly and squarely and purely on her merits...
...fifth successive year Yale won the toss. On account of the heavy wind that was blowing, Captain Hinkey chose the side for the obvious advantage in kicking...
Harvard won the toss and Yale holds the northern goal. Harvard started with a flying wedge and gained twenty yards...