Word: misplay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is, then, the logical and sufficient penalty for fumbling? Fumbling, divesting it of the arbitrary terrors attached to it by the aforesaid Solons in 1879, is a simple misplay and logically the only penalty is what naturally results form the misplay. By a fumble the chance to rush is practically lost or ended, but the hall is not dead and the opponents may capture it and rush with it, even making a score. Anything that may happen on the play in which the fumble occurs should stand as the result...
...Worated Mills nine winning the first game of the fall schedule, 1-0. Cameron's triple, the only clean hit made by the Saxony nine, occurred just after Thayer had failed to net a short drive to centerfield and scored the opposing pitcher, Switzer, on base due to the misplay...