Word: misplay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second was only made after Dean had dropped a thrown ball which should have retired the side. In the fifth, Harvard again scored, Huston allowing Rand to get home from third by his slow throw after a catch. Harvard's run in the sixth was due to another misplay by Pennsylvania. Burgess was caught between first and second, but Ritchie made a wild throw into right field in an attempt to get the ball to first, and Burgess came in. The last run was well earned by Burgess' long drive into right field for a home...
...Princeton on Wednesday. From the first moment that the team appeared on the field all their good plays were applauded with the utmost impartiality, and before the game began the students cheered for Harvard for several minutes. No effort was made to rattle the players even when a misplay might have ruined Harvard' chances...
Athletic games are held not because they give one college a chance to defeat another, but because they are the best means of developing the different sports. They are promarily athletic exhibitions, and to cheer at any misplay is to ridicule an honest effort. For that matter, even if other teams were invited here that they might be defeated, it would still be poor taste to cheer at errors; Harvard ought to win through her own strength, not through the weakness of her opponents...
...well aware that this a delicate question,- that no discourtesy is intended, and that the cheer comes because Harvard is gaining and not because opponents have made a misplay. Yet, in the outward appearance, there is nothing to distinguish one motive from the other, and it has been a tradition here that, in such cases, even the appearance of discourtesy should be avoided. It is a tradition that ought not to be broken...
...practice game between ninety-four and ninety-six yesterday afternoon was a poor exhibition. Both elevens played miserably, especially '94. The work was far weaker than in the B. A. A, game. Almost every long run of the backs was due rather to a misplay of the opponents than to their own skill. The three touchdowns were the direct result of poor tackling. The weakness of '94's centre was caused by the absence of Lee. Richardson, the substitute, was unable to hold Fox, and this, to a great extent, accounts for the fumbles of Cabot at quarter. Beals, Bond...