Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors kept the ball in Harvard territory for most of the first half, and in the closing minutes before intermission their scrum half flipped the ball to his wing who sliced around end for ten yards...
...Crimson team will once more have to contend with Phil Tarasovic, when the rugby squad faces the New York Rugby Club today at Soldier's Field. Tarasovic, who put fullback Tony Gianelli out of action in the '55 Harvard-Yale football game, will start for New York as a scrum hooker. He now weighs in at 240 pounds and should provide considerable power in New York's forward line...
...paper the first teams look quite even, with the visitors having the edge in experience. If the Crimson can stop their heavy scrum and fast backs it may look forward to the remaining games with confidence...
...high morale among all its members has been a major cause of the Club's rapid advance. Each man is attracted by the unfamiliarity of the sport, and gives all he has in learning it. With forty men on the squad, the competition is stiff, and the second team scrum has developed into almost as strong a unit as the first...
Captain Hal Churchill reports that the Club will field its strongest side of the year, thanks to several outstanding additions from the Business School, and that the team has an especially heavy pack in the scrum...