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Basically, Walter Camp thought scrums hid the ball. > English players form solid masses of men in a scrummage and engage in a desperate kicking and pushing mat
by bovermyer 4y ago
Basically, Walter Camp thought scrums hid the ball.
> English players form solid masses of men in a scrummage and engage in a desperate kicking and pushing match until the ball pops out unexpectedly somewhere, leaving the struggling mass ignorant of its whereabouts, still kicking blindly where they think the ball may be.
Further reading: http://www.tony-collins.org/rugbyreloaded/2015/6/16/the-walter-camp-myth-and-the-origins-of-american-football http://www.tony-collins.org/rugbyreloaded/2015/6/16/the-walt...
- aidenn0 4y agoFurther, further reading: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/502784a984ae2d2eef45097c/t/55eea31ce4b0c46828ef673c/1441702684565/American+Football+in+Transnational+Context+%28JGH%29.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/502784a984ae2d2eef450... TL;DR: In the mid 19th century Scrums did kind of suck (the possessor did not release the ball, sending the ball backwards was controversial, and it was twenty-a-side, so it was a mass of bodies just trying to move the ball towards opposite sides). Britain Rugby eventually responded to this, but in a different way compared to Canada and the US. The US difference was largely impacted by a single college's preference for playing eleven-a-side, which opened the game up even more than the fifteen-a-side that was adopted in Britain.
- msoucy 4y agoThis amuses me way more than it should. I'm just picturing a scrummage getting so chaotic that nobody notices for a good minute.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoIsn't this exactly why the work methodology we're predominantly forced to use in this industry is called "scrum"?