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Harvard looked good in their first game. The Crimson forwards pushed the B.A.A. scrum all over the muddy field, but despite the fact that the American term was consistently gaining possession of the ball in the scrummages, Bermuda took advantage of the breaks, and perhaps won by their better knowledge of the game alone. Most of the Harvard players felt afterward that they might easily have won, and they looked forward in great anticipation to walloping Princeton two days hence...
Outweighed in the scrum by both Yale and Princeton, the Crimson fifteen operated under the further disadvantage of losing two of its best players from injuries occurring in the first half of the Tiger contest. Joe Eaton, who had starred against Bermuda, was kicked in the stomach in the opening minutes of play, and Hunt Mauran had to leave the field with a broken jaw during the first half...
...absence of blocking also accounts for the comparative safety of the game. Though there was still the tendency to "pile-up." as in a rugby scrum, the scientific and often dangerous body-contact of present-day football had not yet arrived. Tackling was more a question of pulling a man down than of bringing him down...
Berliners seeking "Strength through Joy" may harden their muscles in a Rugby football scrum, or do push-ups in unison, but may no longer cycle, climb mountains, or ski in organized groups...
...bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924-25, amateur champions of Spain. He was scrum half...