Word: scrum
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...much of the period, Dartmouth (11-1-2, 5-0-1) capitalized on a timely clear to set up shop deep at the Harvard end. With the Crimson unable to clear, the Big Green crowded the front of the net, allowing Clark to slip her shot through the scrum around the crease...
...poop on Soldier’s Field? What about a team who gets no Crimson press even when they kick Yale’s butt every season? What about a club team whose financial budget is miniscule compared to their male counterparts? What about hookers, props, outside centers, and scrum-halfs? For this column, let Radcliffe Rugby be your McLaughlin Group, your All Things Considered, your James Carville (with hair). Let’s find out what they think...
...respondents expressed frustration with the general direction of mainstream politics. Eleven out of 20 Radcliffe players, though they see the election as important, still feel that a Democrat in the White House won’t bring about change of the order that this country desperately needs. One scrum-half wrote that she will be “100 percent satisfied if we can just get Bush out of the White House,” but this was a minority opinion—most who responded will be happy to see Bush go but won’t be completely...
...point and Mayotte, like he did all game, stopped the initial shot. Harvard’s top line of Pettit, Cavanagh and assistant captain Kolarik all charged the net and got their sticks on the puck, but nothing got by Mayotte until Pettit found the puck amidst the scrum of forwards and defenders in front and fired it in, lifting it over a prone Mayotte...
...Saturday's Rugby World Cup final in Sydney; commercial success should now come a little easier. While the players - proud amateurs until the game went professional in 1995 - carve up a €1.9 million bonus, the English game's governing body, the Rugby Football Union, will expect a scrum of sponsors to hail the new champs by loosening their purse strings. The RFU squeezed €15 million out of sponsors this year, topping the €12.9 million it attracted in 2002. After recently inking deals with Nike and British mobile phone operator O2, it has kick-started negotiations with...