Rugby tussle

Usage examples of scrum.

I coached Oxford teams and Gloucestershire teams, led an English scrum, and for fifteen years I have taught footer here, but never saw I such a display!

He was shoved into the scrum, was perfectly useless, and spent his whole time trying to escape notice.

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.

Livingstone kicked off, and the outhouse scrum was on the ball in a minute.

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.

Rightly or wrongly Gordon thought the opposite scrum half was not putting the ball in straight.

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.

OTC way back in the ERPP, and through the port windows you can see all the techs and heads and talent in a king-size scrum around Mrs.

The Hilary Eyre High first fifteen were losing almost every scrum, and it was costing them in points.

Four square-built men came out in a scrum, women following with wide red plastic bowls, with plates, wine, eggs and bread.

The scrum went into a barn at the roadside, stone walls with an iron roof that roasted the evening air.

The scrum threw themselves on the pig, one to clamp each thrashing leg and hold the animal down, a fifth to take a strong knife and cut the throat.

You get in through a scrum of sharp-elbowed lady fashion experts, and they sit you on these toy-sized gilded chairs.

There was a sense of urgency, now, and very little Teutonic efficiency about the milling scrum of men and soldiers.