Word: tosses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale team came on the field at 2.20 and was greeted with a deafening volley of shouts and tin horn tooting. The Princeton team soon followed and after a short bit of preliminary practice the teams took up their positions. Yale won the toss and played the first half with the wind and sun slightly in their favor. The players were...
Harvard winning the toss, Johnson started with the ball but was soon stopped. Both sides were forced to kick after three downs, and no gain. Hallowell blocked Andover's kick near the goal. A kick for goal was tried but was missed. Harvard soon got the ball again, but Crane in making a rush was so badly hurt that Moen had to take his place. Andover by short rushes and four downs of Harvard, near the goal line, succeeded in making a touchdown in 20 minutes. No goal. Score 4-0. Johnson again started with the ball but made...
...Saturday the cricket eleven went to Lowell and played a game with the local team. Lowell won the toss, went to the bat, and made a total of 135. For Harvard, Garrett did the best bowling. Brown and Garrett went in first for Harvard and made 29 before Garrett was bowled by Thorpe. Then Brown saw the rest of the eleven go out, while he carried his bat for 35 out of a total of 65. The score...
...Harvard eleven had never played together before, and showed an entire absence of team work, although individual work was at times good. Exeter was crippled by the absence of Heffelfinger, who broke his hand in the last Harvard game, and of Squires, the regular centre rush. Exeter won the toss, and took upper side. Crane started off, and in three rushes gained five yards. Johnson kicked but the backs were in the way; another kick forced a touch back. After third down, during which time Exeter fumbled badly, but tackeld well, Johnson's punt forced another touch back. Hallowell heeled...
VIII. The contest in base-ball shall be the best two out of three games, one to be played at Cambridge, one at New Haven and a third, if necessary, in either Cambridge or New Haven to be decided by toss by the captains at the end of the second game...