In the American game there is no scrummage in the English sense, nor is the ball thrown in at right angles after going into touch.
If the ball is tackled the player carrying the ball gets up from the ground as soon as possible, and the forwards at once form the scrummage by putting down their heads and getting ready to shove against one another.
There were absolutely no regular positions; the man who was in the front centre of one scrummage might be in the outskirts of the next.
The American players, on the contrary, favored a campaign of personal assault for which the general rules of the English scrummage lent marked facilities.
This is what we call "a scrummage," gentlemen, and the first scrummage in a School-house match was no joke in the consulship of Plancus.
The thickest scrummage parts asunder before his rush, like the waves before a clipper's bows; his cheery voice rings out over the field, and his eye is everywhere.
As endless as are boys' characters, so are their ways of facing or not facing a scrummage at football.
It had been one thing to clean out studies for sons of heroes like old Brooke, but was quite another to do the like for Snooks and Green, who had never faced a good scrummage at football, and couldn't keep the passages in order at night.
This is what we call a scrummage, gentlemen, and the first scrummagein a School-house match was no joke in the consulship of Plancus.
It had been one thing to clean out studies for sons of heroes like old Brooke, but quite another to do the like for Snooks and Green, who had never faced a good scrummage at football, and couldn't keep the passages in order at night.
It had been one thing to clean out studies for sons of heroes like old Brooke, but was quite another to do the like for Snooks and Green, who had never faced a good scrummage at foot-ball, and couldn't keep the passages in order at night.
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