Word: scrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resisting the tendency to let down after the emotional wins over Princeton and Dartmouth, and after a seven-hour dirve to Montreal Friday night, the team held together against a tough McGill squad. The forwards matched a strong McGill scrum, with the backs playing aggressively in the open field...
Bott continued his alert play and pinpoint kicking in the second half. After half-scrum Keith Oberg created a break to the narrow side of the field, Bott punted the ball high in the air, raced under it and caught it and continued down the sideline over the endline...
With seven minutes remaining, Charles Bott broke away from the pack after a lineout at midfield, and sore-kneed fly half Dave Miller's drop-kick from 20 yds. out just cleared the crossbar for the margin of victory. Princeton pressed, but a heads up play from scrum half Keith Oberg, who quick-kicked the ball out of the Crimson end in the final moments, saved the victory...
Holy Cross threatened only once in the first half, when a Crusader back streaked around end only to be tackled within ten yards of the Crimson goal. But a Holy Cross penalty during the ensuing scrum enabled Harvard to clear the ball...
...Crimson ruggers dominated the intense first half action, methodically driving around end, after successfully controlling the play. Supported by Harvard's talented linemen, hooker Rick Kief repeatedly directed the ball back to the waiting O'Berg, the scrum half. "Little Red," who seemed to be all over the field throughout the game, would crisply pass the ball to one of the backs...