Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshman Sione Tupouniua from the Tonga Islands looms as the front line (or scrum's) top prospect. Sione came out for the team in the fall, wanting to play barefoot a la Michigan State kicker Dick Kenney. He competed in one game without shoes before giving in to the concern his fellow players had for his health. But that didn't harm his play. Sione's speedy 210 pounds has made him a feared tackler of enemy ball-carriers...
Sophomore Paul Buddenhagen also will bolster the speed of the scrum. A former end in high school football and a good ball handler, he specializes in stealing the ball from opposing runners. Buddenhagen, who learned the game in England, also helps Macdonald and Spector coach the team...
With that point clarified, I turned to other Briton, scarred from his day on the playing fields of Eton, to find out the of the game. But by the time I tell a scrum from a line-in. Harvard was on its way to a 13-3 defeat, and the first half was over...
...School dominated play from the first. In the scrum (a sort of push-of-war) they consistently out-shoved the Crimson to get possession of the ball. In the line in (similar to basketball's jump ball, but with the entire of lines of both teams participating), the B-School also prevailed...
...padding attempt to bring a sort of bloated football across their opponents' goal line. They can run with it, kick it, or pass it laterally or backward. If a man with the ball is tackled by an opponent he must drop it immediately, and both teams form a "scrum," that is, a circular pile of men attempting to kick the ball into their possession and kick their opposition away from the ball...