Word: rugger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could find several national groups (though perhaps of American origin) at Harvard in higher proportions than this. With regard to the displacement of the English by American competition, it is worth noting that in the past few years I think that only one American has played on the Rugger team and the few men who have rowed have not been Rhodes Scholars. It must be admitted that in Track the Scholars (Colonial as well as American) take a larger share and last year a motion was introduced to limit this. It might also be added that in intramural sports...
...Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing men. It is not to be wondered at, then, that the weather forms the first staple of conversation at Oxford; that it is, in fact, the first of a number of interests which the Englishman and the foreigner find in common...
...missionaries are athletes. But the soldiers of Christ must have active bodies and many of those who preach His Word in China have introduced there the wholesome exercises practiced in the west-baseball, rugger, track. Last week in Hankow the picked volleyball experts of two rival mission schools went out to play...
...these finally agreed that Abe Mitchell (who later confessed that he had paid no attention to the newfangled arrangements but just "played for the pin" as usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record...
Some 30,000 Englishmen, including George Windsor, better known by his first name, went to Twickenham. There they witnessed what they testified to be one of the most thrilling "rugger" matches ever held between Oxford and Cambridge Universities...