Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ramsay says his backs are light, but fast, like Bill King, who in track competition last year sprinted 100 yards in 9.8 seconds. The scrum is light too, but well drilled...
John Cotter, starting at scrum-half, produced the Crimson scoring with a pair of penalty goals. He got his first early in the game to give the ruggers a 3 to 0 lead at the half; McGill then picked up two penalty goals in the second half to take the lead...
...last four minutes of the game the Crimson came back strong against the Canadians, with the locals' scrum clearly superior. McGill incurred another penalty with one minute to go, and Cotter banged in a difficult angle kick as the game ended...
Play is continuous except for penalties, and there are no time-outs or substitutes. The ball is put in play by throwing it into the "scrum"--the eight forwards of each team who lock arms, put their heads together, and attempt to get and stop the ball from each other. The "hooker"--middle man in the front row of three--heels it back through the ranks until it is taken by the "scrum half" who hands behind the scrum. He throws it out laterally to the fly half, who tosses it center three-quarters, and they to the wings...
...pound Doug Worrall is the fly-half, and John Cotter is the scrum-half, Roger Gleeby is the "lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers...