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Word: scrum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, if Harvard won a scrum, half Tim Endicott would dummy a pass to his backs, hoping to draw an opposing player offside and setting the sure-footed Bott up for an easy penalty kick to win the match...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Killer B's Take Tourney | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

...almost all the players, rugby is much more than a game. Beer and somewhat off-color songs after Thursday practices are as much an institution as line-outs and scrum-downs. Roy Roberts, president of the club, is relieved to be temporarily finished with tournaments so he can enjoy the company of his teammates...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Yellow Jackets and Beer Mugs | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

Keith Oberg, the team's hooker and past scrum captain, characterized the weekend as a "culmination of an impossible dream: three years ago, a fifteen game unbeaten streak and a shot at the national title seemed impossible...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Ruggers Snatch First at Eastern Championships | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...scrum, led by the inspired play of Ed Montgomery. Al Halliday, and Dave Suave, made up for past mediocre showings and played with what wing forward Greg Carey termed "their full intensity for eighty minutes." Tournament Director Joe Franklin called the Crimson backs "possibly the best ones in East Coast college rugby...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Ruggers Snatch First at Eastern Championships | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...Oberg made the most important play of the tournament by extending his hooking leg far into the Princeton side of the scrum and stealing the ball" from the Tigers with about thirty seconds to go, Halliday said...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Ruggers Snatch First at Eastern Championships | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

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