Scrum (rugby) the players who are designated forwards binding together in three rows. The scrum then 'engages' with the opposition team so that the players' heads are interlocked with those of the other side's front row. In rugby union the initiation of the process is verbally coordinated by the referee who calls 'crouch, bind, set' as of 2013 (formerly 'crouch, touch, pause, engage', 'crouch and hold, engage' before 2007). The scrum-half from the team that did not infringe then throws the ball into the tunnel created in the space between the two sets of front rowers' legs. Both teams may then try
Lionel Crouch Lionel Crouch Lionel William Crouch (20 August 1886 - 21 July 1916) was a British solicitor who was killed during the First World War in the Battle of the Somme. Lionel William Crouch was born on 20 August 1886 to William Crouch, a Clerk of the Peace to Buckinghamshire County Council, and Helen Marian Crouch née Sissons. He had a younger brother, Guy R. Crouch, who became a captain in the 1st Bucks Battalion of the British Army and was awarded the Military Cross; and a sister Doris. The family home was Friarscroft in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Crouch was educated at