Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great deal of credit for the game is due to the bowling of Clark and Lippincott. There was no large individual score on either side, but the runs were pretty well scattered. The scoring was very slow, owing to the softness of the ground. Harvard won the toss and went in first to bat. As Lowell only scored 27 runs, less than 60 per cent. of the Harvard score, they started their second innings immediately after the first was over. Owing to the weakness of Harvard's bowling they scored 100 runs for only three wickets down. The score...
...Holt jumped, the former winning with 5 ft. 8 in., Holt doing 5 ft. 6 3-4 in. The performances in the pole vault were poor, Emmons winning at 9 ft. 6 in. Brooks and Curtis tied for second at 9 ft. 3, Brooks winning second prize on the toss...
Pennsylvania won the toss and chose the ball. Brooke kicked to Brewer who tried to return it but punted low. U. of P. got the ball on Harvard's 15 yard line. Almost instantly a Pennsylvania back fumbled and it was Harvard's ball again. This time Brewer punted out of danger to the 30 yard line...
Harvard won the toss and chose the kick-off sending the ball to the 25-yard line, where Pennsylvania secured the ball and immediately attempted to gain through Harvard's tackles, but Holden and Haughton proved too strong for them, and Captain Harrison ordered a kick. Harvard, after two attempts to gain, gave Haughton the ball for a trial at Pennsylvania's tackle. He ploughed right through the line for the five-yard gain, the first advance of the game. Holden was sent to the other tackle for an almost equal advance, when Adams, well protected by Haughton and Farley...
...toss and chose the south goal, a heavy wind blowing from the north. Curtis caught the first kick off on the fly on B. A. A.'s 20 yard line, and ran with the ball before touching it to the ground. With the aid of splendid interference, he carried the ball over Harvard's goal line...