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...former Dartmouth varsity tackle, Jones has played Rugby on the U.S. West Coast (where it is mildly popular), and prefers it to U.S. football. "In American football," he says, "the backs do all the thinking and have all the fun. In 'Rugger,' I'm in the game. I get a chance to take part in the tactics, and even to make like a fullback and score." Last week came a triumphal moment for Rugger Enthusiast Vincent Jones: the Oxford-Cambridge game, called simply "the varsity match...
...football players hand in their cleats and hockey players draw on their skates, Harvard's rugger players are taking a short rest between seasons. The popularity at football's ancestor is on the rise again as the Harvard Rugby Club prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary this spring. The only squad at Harvard with freshmen, upperclassmen, and graduate students combined on one team, the rugby men will resume practice in February at Briggs Cage, in preparation for a ten game spring schedule...
Cockpit & Goggles. Slessor's convic tions hardened, as he did, in the school of experience. The son of a British major in the Indian army, he grew up with a cruel impediment: a "gammy leg" that kept him off the rugger field, gave him a lifelong limp. Nerve alone won his commission in the Royal Flying Corps, but once in the air, Slessor proved a topflight pilot. In the Sudan in 1916, he swooped down on a dervish cavalry outfit, routed it with Lewis gunfire and bombs, and "by this unexpected method of assault," wrote the official R.A.F. historian...
...coach Frank Lombardi, hooker Brady Williams, and wing forward Larry McQuade, former Oxford varsity star, will lead the potent Crimson attack. Two experienced Argentinian players, Maximo Leloir and George Hardoy, will cover wing and loc for Harvard respectively. At the other wing will be Andre Mistrol, a capable French rugger. John Styles, Christopher Laing, and John MacDonald will be at the backs...
...badly-depleted rugger squad goes to Montreal this weekend for a return match tomorrow afternoon with the West mount Rugby Club. George Sella, "Red" V. ylie, and 230 pound Jeff Power will all be unable to play, and the team's back-line and forward pack will be drastically weakened...