Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Engineers did not even have a full team for the early season encounter and since then has bolstered itself with a new shipment of ruggers, including two or more bona fide Englishmen. Tech is especially strong in the "hooker" position, the middle man in the front row of the scrum who tries to kick the ball back to his backs...
...front are a healthy lot. Peter Manning-Smith, Lou Travis, and Bill Boucher will as usual make up the front line of the scrum, Ferd Schoch and Ed White the second, and John Carey, Joe Soriano, and Eddie Davis the outer shell...
...score came when Al key picked up a ball kicked back from a scrum and pitched out to another three-quarter back, Sam Adams. Adams ran to within 15 yards of the goal line, when, finding himself hemmed in by McGill players on all sides, he lateraled to Al Green who just made it over the line before being hit by two McGill players. Green was slightly shaken up on the play...
...Tech team included seven members of the Harvard B squad. In the scrums, the winners were weak on hooking but their backs, particularly scrum halfback Colin McIntyre and Joe Eaton, were impressive...
Harvard's heavy scrum kept the Tiger at bay most of the game and each team only once came close to scoring on running-dribbling attacks...