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MOST PEOPLE discover purely by accident that Harvard has a rugby team. Perhaps they mean to go the Saturday morning soccer game, and take the wrong turn at the Stadium. Maybe they're looking for the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, and happen upon a scrimmage a few yards away. In any case, only a small knot of students know that a Harvard rugby team exists...
...many observers, rugby looks like disorganized football, but any Harvard rugger will vehemently protest that it is merely unencumbered. The game is played on a 100-yard field, wider than a football gridiron, and has goalposts at either end. Crossing the goal and touching the ball down, called a "try," is worth three points, and a conversion kick immediately afterwards counts for two. In addition, penalty kicks, which also count for three points, are awarded for certain infractions...
Marks, who lives in England, planned his two-week vacation in the U.S. around this game. Playing at fullback with Keyes, his defensive work led the alumni to their second victory in six contests...
Dartmouth was weaker than the Harvard ruggers expected. Early in the game Tupouniua scored from a scrum ten yards from the goal line, but the conversion failed. A few plays later, Harvard fullback Joe Daly connected with a penalty kick to make the score 6-0 at halftime...
...idea for the frisbee challenge came up at a meeting of the Wilson College Athletic Committee last month, he said. Other suggestions at the meeting included inviting Radcliffe girls to a touch football game, an idea which "is still being developed," Curtis said...