Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wing forward Carl Esterhay set up the winning tri (worth 4 points) scored by Walter Herbert. Moving from a scrum, Esterhay intercepted a pass in the Columbia back line leading to the scoring drive. Jim Durham rounded out the Harvard scoring with a 3 point field goal...
Actually, the embattled particpants of this rumble use their feet attempting to feed the ball to a "scrum half" who flings it to a back. The back line, spread diagonally behind the ball carrier as a formation of seagulls or rather as a wedge of football players, swarms upfield as the ball is flung, always backwards, towards the sideline...
Late in the second half, the ruggers mounted a final drive deep into Bulldog territory. Awarded a scrum on Yale's five-yard line, the Harvard forwards drove over the ball, getting it out to the backs, who passed quickly down the line, out to the wing, but just as the ball was carried over the goal line, the referee ruled that the ball had been illegally passed forward and whistled the play dead...
...Elis began to tire, however, Harvard's offense exploded in the last five minutes of the game. Inside center Mike Dematteo added Harvard's second goal when he fell on a little kick that originated in the Crimsom scrum and dribbled into the endzone...
...second half was fought out in Yale territory. The Harvard scrum overpowered a smaller and weaker set of Yale forwards, but the Eli backs put up a scrappy defense that kept Harvard out of their goal for most of the period...