Word: rugger
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...short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning his blue at boxing (although a Cambridge tiger defeated him recently), and writing the first 50 pages of a novel-"a sort of complicated thing, in which I look at the same episode through five different points of view...
Reach for the Sky. (J. Arthur Rank). "Damn!" thought R.A.F. Cadet Douglas Bader (rhymes with ah'd her) as he lay in the smoking wreckage of his tiny biplane and inspected his shattered leg. "I won't be able to play rugger on Saturday." Cadet Bader was right. By Saturday both his legs were off. "Sssh!" he heard a nurse say. "There's a boy dying in there." The sick man stiffened. "Dying! We'll see," he thought grimly, and began to fight for his life...
Leading candidate for full back is Englishman John Alden, first Divinity School rugger in some time. Freshman fly half Don Shojai has come to the team from Persia via Hertfordshire...
Most of the weight in the scrum will be provided by newcomers Tony Markella and Bob Shane, the two locks, ex-Williams rugger Bob Huff at prop, and Eighthman Terry Turner, starting his fourth season for the Crimson...
...neither side will be quite devoid of footballers on April 21, as several of last year's varsity are planning to turn to rugby this spring. Jerry Marsh, '54 quarterback and veteran rugger, will lead a law school contingent that may include several ex-Elis, and All-Ivy tackle Orville Tice will be back for his second rugby season...