Crossword-Solution: SCRUMMAGE 9 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And there were days that packed into the space of a few hours the concentrated essence of a music-hall knock-about sketch, an earthquake, a football scrummage, and the rush-hour on the Tube; when the office was full of shouting men, when strange figures dived in and out and banged doors like characters in an old farce, and Harold, the proud office-boy, lost his air of being on the point of lunching with a duke at the club and perspired like one of the proletariat.

Long as we're not killed, what does it matter?" "Then you are wounded, Samson?" "Well, yes, lad; I got a tidy chop aside of the head, and a kick in the ribs from a horse in the scrummage.

Look here, Master Fred, are we going to have another scrummage?" "Hush! Yet, I think so." "So do I, sir," said Samson, taking up his belt another hole.

There was a hard scrummage, and in the nick of time, Joe Sayler (who was then the crack sprinter of the Conquerors), dashed up and got the ball clear before it reached the keeper.

That is where the ball is, and there are the keen players to be met, and the glory and the hard knocks to be got: you hear the dull thud thud of the ball, and the shouts of "Off your side," "Down with him," "Put him over," "Bravo!" This is what we call a scrummage, gentlemen, and the first scrummage in a School-house match was no joke in the consulship of Plancus.