Word: lineout
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...lineout five yards from the Yale line, the Bulldogs capped the ball back into their goal. Halliday burst through behind the ball and scored Harvard's second try to give the Crimson an 8-3 advantage...
With seven minutes remaining, Charles Bott broke away from the pack after a lineout at midfield, and sore-kneed fly half Dave Miller's drop-kick from 20 yds. out just cleared the crossbar for the margin of victory. Princeton pressed, but a heads up play from scrum half Keith Oberg, who quick-kicked the ball out of the Crimson end in the final moments, saved the victory...
...Crimson did not win a lineout or a scrum the whole first half. Every time harvard penetrated the Indians' zone, Dartmouth turned the play toward the sidelines and gained possession of the ball on the lineout...
Touch--this sensuous term simply means out of bounds. The ball must then be thrown in by the side which did not put it in touch. It must be passed in through a "lineout" formation in which the teams line up parallel to each other, and then jump for the ball, trying to kick it to their team-mates...