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...Fall rugger is never as good as in the spring. Practice begins several weeks after school starts, and there is usually insufficient preparation for the first match. This spring, however, practice in Briggs Cage will begin during February and will be followed by several matches in Bermuda over spring vacation...
Seven-A-Sides rugger is played, obviously enough, with seven men on a team, (three forwards, three backs, and a scrumhalf) in two seven-minute periods of play. With much razzle dazzle and little differentiation in position, it is a wide-open game, similar to touch football. The forwards also play like backs, and there are few scrums and a great deal of running...
Furthermore, Harvard twice stood on the Princeton goal line, and twice thought it had pushed the ball over for a three-point try. In both cases, however, the referee maintained it had been downed by a Princeton rugger...
Open play and hard running during the first half may wear Boston down. They have the edge on Harvard in experience, but the Crimson banks on their getting tired. (The average Boston Rugger's age is only 29.) Toward the end of the game, when they tire and become lax on defense, pressure will bear down...
...second team's inexperience may well cause it to have a difficult time. The Crimson is fielding this second squad so everyone can play. "You learn more in five minutes of play than two hours of practice," commented a senior rugger...