NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The scrum is a way to restart play after certain stoppages, like a forward pass or knock-on, or when the ball becomes unplayable in a ruck or maul. Eight players from each team, ...

If rugby’s a circus, then the scrum is its clown car pile-up. Picture eight players from each team — burly and sweaty — locking arms, crouching low, and smashing into each other like human bumper cars ...

* Loose-head prop (jersey number 1): A big, strong player who is responsible for scrumming in the front row and lifting the jumpers in the line-out. * Hooker (jersey number 2): This front rower ...

Rob Hoadley, the Englishman who is the head coach of the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby, has been around the game for most of his 39 years. He played rugby professionally with a couple of ...

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

A late scrum penalty converted by fly-half Handre Pollard handed victory to South Africa over England in last year's Rugby World Cup semi-final Autumn Nations Series: England v South Africa Venue: ...

Scrum-half Danny Care, who won 101 caps for England and has made a record 394 appearances for Harlequins, will retire from rugby at the end of the season. Care, 38, stepped back from the international ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...

Here are some of the basics of union rugby. This is from the Minnesota Rugby Union’s Web site. • Each team has eight forwards, who make up the scrum, and seven backs. Each player on the pitch (field) ...

Despite being one of the most fast paced, exciting, and undoubtedly violent team sports in the world, rugby isn’t a very popular within the United States. Therefore, as a college rugby player myself, ...