Word: sella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wylie and ex-Princetonian George Sella are leading the back-line a position where their quarter-back skills can be used best...
According to Sella, "Your play goes on in a definite order, and you miss the interesting play cycles you get in football especially after something like a situation down...
...thing Wylie can't understand, however, is rugby's low accident rate. Both he and Sella agree the sport is a rough one--Sella thinks it's rougher even than football. Wylie adds, "You wear no equipment of any sort, except maybe a pair of shinguards. Yet you can do a flying tackle, or be tackled, and not really notice...
...Sella thinks the explanation comes from rugby's less rigorous schedule of games and infrequent practice scrimmages. "I hate to think what would happen if the squad practiced every afternoon of the week, say for about three hours at a time," he says...
...Sella and Wylie still have difficulty with the no forward-pass rule and the no blocking rule. Wylie instinctively wants to block a forward as he goes for the ball, and it's a real effort of will to stop...