Edwin, in spite of his lightness, had now found a place in the scrum of the second fifteen, and on Saturday evenings, when both of them were drugged with their weekly debauch of exercise, he and W.
The half who was taking the scrum whipped the ball out in the direction of his colleague.
The Nomad forwards had brought the ball down the ground with one of their combined dribbles, and a scrum had been formed on the Beckford twenty-five line.
They broke through in a solid mass--the Beckford forwards never somehow seemed to get together properly in the first scrum of a big match--and rushed the ball down the field.
Hitherto, the ball had always remained long enough in the scrum to give Marriott and Wogan, the School halves, time to get round and on to their men before they could become dangerous.
The ball dribbled out of the scrum on the School side, and Marriott punted into touch.
The Nomad half who was taking the scrum picked it up, and was over the line before Marriott realized that the ball was out at all.
Pillingshot's idea of a French lesson was something between a pantomime rally and a scrum at football.
The first half dozen times that Merevale's scrum tried to heel they were shoved off their feet, and it was on the enemy's side that the ball went out.
One day we will take the forwards, get the scrum properly formed, practise hooking, heeling and screwing.
Luckily one of the heroes had strolled down from Pelion that afternoon to criticize Little Side and Michael was promoted from the scrum to play three-quarter back on the left wing, in which position he really enjoyed football very much indeed.
The scrimmages were the tightest and neatest ever watched, and neither scrumcould screw the other a foot.
The scrum in action looks like a huge tortoise with a score of legs at each end, which by some unaccountable freak of nature are struggling to walk in opposite directions.
The backs faced each other in pairs ranged out on the side of the scrum that afforded the broader field for running.
The legs in the Balliol scrum pushed harder and the bodies squirmed to more advantage, for our men had presently got the ball among their feet.
Blackburn's scrum was too heavy for them, with its three first fifteen men and two seconds.
Kay's would have to trust to its scrum to pull it through.
So don't let me catch you loafing outside the scrum again," he concluded.
You're a forward and it isn't your job to cut the scrum and lurk about for the ball.
Once Spots had romped away, but for the rest of the match the heavy Randallite scrum had kept the ball close and pushed their light opponents all over the field.
Five minutes before time was up, Drummond got the ball from a scrum nearly on the line, passed it to Barry on the wing instead of opening up the game by passing to his centres, and Barry slipped through in the corner.
Then suddenly one of their forwards kicked it on, and just at that moment the opposition of the Wrykyn pack gave way, and the scrum broke up.
From the scrum the Seymour's forwards broke away to the goal-line, where they were pulled up by Bassett.
The throw-out was not straight, and a scrum was formed.
The first scrum was formed in the heart of the enemy's country.
The Ripton half who was taking the scrum gathered it cleanly, and passed to his colleague.
The firstscrum was formed on the Wrykyn twenty-five line.
The scrum had formed by now, and further conversation was impossible.
In the frantic scramble for place, the inexperienced in the methods of the scrum were as much left out in the cold as a timid old maid at what Americans call a bargain counter.
After an exciting race and scrum I succeeded in securing a copy.
The next time the scrum half got the ball Gordon flung him with unnecessary force, when he was already in touch, right into the ropes.
And from then onwards the relations between Gordon and the scrum half were those of a scrapping match.
A scrum formed up and from the heel Richards got the ball to Lovelace, who broke through the defence and with a clear field ahead made for the line.
The scrum half called him "a bloody interfering bastard," and told him to go to hell.
From the line out, the ball was flung to Richards, who, putting his head down, literally fought his way through the scrum and tottered out the other side.
There had been a tight scrumwhich had more or less collapsed.
Mansell was captain of the Two Cock, Jeffries was leading the scrum, Hunter was being tried as scrum half, and Lovelace was in training as a reserve.
Foster wasscrum half; Collins and Gordon were in the scrum.
I can't understand it; and Caruthers will be leading the school scrum in two years.
Rightly or wrongly Gordon thought the oppositescrum half was not putting the ball in straight.
Livingstone kicked off, and the outhouse scrum was on the ball in a minute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
