Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outweighed in the scrum by both Yale and Princeton, the Crimson fifteen operated under the further disadvantage of losing two of its best players from injuries occurring in the first half of the Tiger contest. Joe Eaton, who had starred against Bermuda, was kicked in the stomach in the opening minutes of play, and Hunt Mauran had to leave the field with a broken jaw during the first half...
...absence of blocking also accounts for the comparative safety of the game. Though there was still the tendency to "pile-up." as in a rugby scrum, the scientific and often dangerous body-contact of present-day football had not yet arrived. Tackling was more a question of pulling a man down than of bringing him down...
Berliners seeking "Strength through Joy" may harden their muscles in a Rugby football scrum, or do push-ups in unison, but may no longer cycle, climb mountains, or ski in organized groups...
...bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924-25, amateur champions of Spain. He was scrum half...
Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...