Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loose scrum--this forms wherever the ball is lying free and players start scrapping for it. The ball must be played with the feet until it is kicked free...
...while the three-quarter line seems fairly well off, the team is still weak in the scrum. Again, inexperience is the basic problem. Ray Vickers, secretary of the Club, is hopeful that practice will produce a better binding and lower riding scrum...
...scrummage is used to put the ball back in play and not to help a team advance. The scrum halfback throws the ball into the scrum, and both teams have an equal opportunity to "heel it" or "wheel it" out to their backs, where as in football, one team begins in possession of the ball...
Eight forwards constitute the scrum. They "bind" together, forming a mass of power, and attempt to push back the other side's scrum. The lower they "ride," the more success they will have, much as in blocking in football...
...quite rapid succession, Harvard scored two more tries, with Bart Francis, who starred in the scrum, making the first, and Richard Carey accounting for the second. After both tries, Julian converted, each time from difficult angles near the sidelines...