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...Rugger differs from American football in that the ball is constantly in motion unless a penalty is called and there are no regular plays. Because the action is fluid the coach can't influence actual playing, and the experienced player who can react to a certain situation in the right way will win the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugger Team Prepares for Bermuda Trip | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...Rugger demands a different approach and Coach Ed Callahan, the Harvard University Rugby Football Club's mentor and former Crimson player, has been pretty happy lately at the way his players have adapted themselves to the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugger Team Prepares for Bermuda Trip | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fool's Game | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Though the most Western of all Burmese leaders, Tin Tut was not the British stooge Communists called him. Returning to Burma from Oxford, where he had been a Rugger Blue (played in the varsity rugger team), he was informed that as a Burmese he could not be a member of the clubs in which his British former teammates toasted the old country. His nationalism was hardened and embittered by this treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Yogi v. Commissars | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Along with goldfish gulping and backgammon, the last few years have witnessed the virtual disappearance of rugger from the Cambridge scene. To the contemporary undergraduate the name "rugby" might identify a town in North Dakota exalted as "the geographic center of North America" just as readily as it would be associated with a British athletic indulgence occasionally practiced in the United States...

Author: By Roger H. Wilson, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

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