Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...minutes. The third shot will be the signal for the start. Referees will be stationed along the bank, and bumps will be signaled either through a megaphone or by a revolver shot. As soon as the signal is given, both the bumping crew and the crew bumped must drop out. All bumps must be made on the outside. Each crew must keep to the inside course in rounding a curve, to give the crew behind a chance to bump. A crew disregarding this rule will be considered bumped...
...Frothingham was in the scrimmage for the first time in two weeks, having recovered almost entirely from the injury to his knee. H. C. Leslie was on the field, but did not take part in the scrimmage. T. Frothingham spent some time in drop-kicking, and should show much improvement in this department in the next game...
...they could not gain and punted to Campbell, who was tackled on his 50-yard line. A long forward pass from Wigglesworth to Lewis netted 22 yards and it was first down on West Point's 36-yard line. Campbell made 5 yards and then Frothingham tried a drop-kick, but the ball fell 10 yards short of the goal and Spaulding ran it in to his 17-yard line. Wendell took Campbell's place, and after the next play the period ended...
Corbett returned to the game, displacing Wendell, and Potter took Wigglesworth's place. In this period the play was entirely in West Point's territory, but a fumble, an unsuccessful drop-kick and an intercepted forward pass kept Harvard from scoring after it had rushed the ball inside West Point's 15-yard line...
When play was resumed McDonald punted from his 17-yard line to his 50-yard line. Six rushes, in which Corbett and Frothingham alternated on skin-tackle plays, carried the ball to the 15-yard line. Frothingham again failed in an attempt at a drop-kick. West Point punted on the first play from the 25-yard line and Wigglesworth was downed on his 50-yard line. It took eight rushes for the University team to put the ball on the 14-yard line, and a well executed forward pass from Potter to L. D. Smith advanced the ball...