Word: scrum
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...there's a simple order beneath it all. The eight largest members of each team bind together in a straining crowd of bodies that's called the scrum...
Noble, Tew and Waciume worked well together in the backline but never found a breakaway combination. Harvard's lack of practice showed in its difficulty with getting the ball out of its scrum...
...Crimson scrum, which had been scrappy but loose all afternoon, got it together in the last ten minutes and helped the backs push into Armadillo territory...
...scrum half, Barlow will pitch the ball into the mass of bodies that make up the scrum and then wait for it to pop back out again. If it goes Harvard's way, McKinley at lock will heel the ball out of the scrum to Barlow...
Both play at wing forward--a position requiring strength, since it's part of the scrum, as well as speed, since wing forwards often break out of loose rucks with the ball...