Word: rugger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of team play cannot be underestimated in rugger. With rules against blocking and forward passes, individual stardom is much less likely than in football. Only the ballcarrier can be tackled, making it essential to keep play open so he can pass...
During the nineteenth century, however, rugby or rugger became more formalized. Gradually, distinctions were drawn between two variants of the game. One, which permitted players to pick up the ball and run with it, soon evolved into rugby. The other version, which only permitted players to kick the ball, was soon formalized as a separate sport. In fact, soccer, or rugby without passing, today enjoys greater popularity than its kin in Scotland...
Blood and guts are the main ingredients of the grand sport. But rugger is still a gentleman's sport. After getting your wind knocked out or after a particularly jarring tackle, one bears (I am told), "Terribly sorry old chap!" or "Pardon me, laddie!" Whether international or local in origin, this custom sets the tone for rugby in New England
None of these feuds matched the battle from which Port Elizabeth was recovering last week. There 50,000 white fans were on hand to watch South Africa's Springboks face Australia in the final match of this year's rugger world series; South Africa, which has held the championship for nearly 50 years, was behind two games to one. This was quite all right with the crowd of 5,000 nonwhites, which inside its segregated enclosure felt no sympathy for the locals. With the visitors ahead in this final match, the nonwhites cheered so loudly that the puzzled...
Balliol's current master, Sir David Lindsay Keir, is a legal scholar who maintains Jowett's old stress on under graduate minds and muscles via stiff classics, intimate tutorials, rugger and rowing. Graduate research is still rare at Balliol, but science is finally getting its head; of the 39 fellows, nine are scientists and mathematicians. The, others remain brilliant eminences in philosophy or Sanskrit-men like Theodore Tylor, tutor in jurisprudence and one of Britain's best bridge players, although he is almost blind...