Word: misplay
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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...
...made it five victories in six games by defeating Dean Academy yesterday afternoon by a score of 5 to 2. The loose playing which has been evident in the earlier contests was entirely absent yesterday, and both nines fielded in excellent form, the Freshmen figuring in only one misplay, which did not result in a score. The summary: 1921 ab. r. bh. po. a. e. J. Baldwin, l.f., 4 0 0 2 0 0 S. Baldwin, ss., 4 1 1 1 5 0 King, 1b., 2 0 0 12 2 0 Meehan, 3b., 3 1 2 0 4 0 Davis...
...only after a close nine-inning contest. There was no scoring by either team until the fifth inning when Team B tallied on singles by Delano and Bond, Team A, however, tying the score in their half of the fifth when Stephens and Hardy singled and Kerr made a misplay on a hit from Ward's bat. Team A scored their second run in the next inning when Delano, who had been pitching a good game for the substitutes in the first five innings, lost his control and passed four men, but pulled himself together after one run had been...
...runs, and had another big inning in the fifth when Casey scored on Abbot's double, and Harte drove in Ellis and Abbot with his circuit drive. Kerr was the star for the substitutes, with a pretty double, six putouts and two assists to his credit, but made one misplay in the field, J. Knowles '18, left fielder on last year's nine, did not report for practice, as he is intending to leave College shortly to join the United States Aviation Corps at Newport News...