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.
"The Man Upstairs and Other Stories"
P. G. Wodehouse
The American players, on the contrary, favored a campaign of personal assault for which the general rules of the English scrummage lent marked facilities.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin
When the enemy heeled the ball out of the "scrummage" to their quarter-back, putting us for the moment on the defensive, I was to watch my man, and, if the ball was passed to him, to tackle him.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin