scrummage

How would you like a scrummage, Andy, with them Scotchmen that stole your mother's chickens this morning?

The ball has just fallen again where the two sides are thickest, and they close rapidly around it in a scrummage.

In the American game there is no scrummage in the English sense, nor is the ball thrown in at right angles after going into touch.

As endless as are boys' characters, so are their ways of facing or not facing a scrummage at football.

The pain was considerable, and when dragged from the scrummage he was in a half-fainting condition.