Word: misplay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Wingate played a fine game in the field, accepting eight chances without a misplay, while Boles and Reilly of Andover had some fine stops to their credit...
...discouraging, and yet encouraging, feature in both these critical instances of misplay is that in both cases the mistake was of a very elementary nature; discouraging, because fumbling and disobedience to the rules should be unknown in the work of a finished team; encouraging, because such faults are from their simplicity easy for the coaches to attack. The keen football heads that will direct the work of next year's team cannot fail to profit by this experience...
...game. In the eighth inning Harvard made two runs on a base on balls, an error, and a single. In the ninth Murphy, for Malden, reached first on an error, took second and third on two successive outs, and scored when Wooley was safe at first on a misplay. The next man was safe on an error and Letherman's three-bagger brought both men home. Long pitched a good game for Harvard, striking out nine...