Word: scrumming
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...game played earlier in the season, the New York Rugby Club proved that it had a strong team. Outstanding in the New York lineup are Letcher, a clever forward; Carey, the scrum half who was a substitute on the all-eastern team which played Cambridge; and Howland and Strange, former Yale football players...
...father was a British International (equivalent to U. S. All-America) in 1907 ; K. C. Fyfe, a good dropkicker, who played wing three-quarter against Oxford last year and the year before, won his Blue and International in his freshman year at Caius College; J. E. Bowcott, 145-Ib. scrum-half, smallest man on the team, whose spectacular lateral passing led to three Cambridge tries; Cliff Jones, a spry little 154-lb. Welsh freshman of Clare College, already considered one of the best stand-off halves in England. He recovered from a tonsillectomy just before the first game, almost scored...
...Scrum end-lineup for the start or resumption of play. The ball-pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying...
...Meiklejohn took the ball from a scrimmage and plunged over the line for the first score of the game. He added two more points on a well-placed kick following the try. Near the end of the game, Craig received the ball on a series of passes from a scrum near the Harvard line, and carried it across for Princeton's first tally...
...idea of what was going on, either about the actions of the players or the score of the game. By the second game, between Harvard and the Philadelphia Marines, however, at least the formula for adding up points was generally known, as well as the meaning of the terms "scrum" and "lineout." Also the fact that the Marines won from Harvard last year by 26 to 0 was loudly proclaimed by the backers of the Gold...