Word: mudding
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Because the ball will become heavy and slippery in the mud, there should be very few back movements and the ball will probably stay with the forwards. This will make for a close, rough, and slow moving game. The slime was deep enough yesterday for two ducks to take a few practice laps across the field...
...Rugby Club opens its spring season on a muddy home field against M.I.T. at 4 p.m. today. Bolstered by a big and hard-pushing scrum, the Club faces a mediocre Tech squad in a mud match that should be decided by the forwards...
...dizziest man in town is Platonov, a napless Don Juan whose bumbling charm creates a pentagonal affair that stirs up billows of social mud. While trying half-heartedly to stick by his angelic wife ("I don't want happiness, I want you"), Platonov intermittently toys with a flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother...
...leonine wind prowled through the saw grass, rattling the few gaunt thornbushes that dot the banks of the Zambezi River near Kasane. Potbellied kids squatted in the shade of round, white-walled mud huts while their mothers hacked with mattocks in the maize patches. Down at the riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny...
...muddy field made smooth passwork an achievement in itself. Players got mud in their sticks, and often lofted gobs of goo along with the ball after scooping it off the ground. The midfield play was especially sloppy, and not altogether gentle. On several occasions the officials allowed the pushing and shoving over loose balls to go a bit far, and there will be plenty of sore ribs for a few days...