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Show Jfiday,_ March "31 The Utah Statesman HOOKERS NEEDED (or the tntire Summer!! From page 6 These are generally big, thick penalty, the non-offending team gets to put the ball guys because they are primarily responsible for push- back in play by means of a player called a scrum half. ing the scrum forward. The This is an advantage for that two props grab each other's team, because the scrum shirts and pull themselves half has special calls to alert close together. The other player on the first line is the his team when he will throw hooker. The hooker is situ- " the ball in, Cespedes said. ated between them with his The scrum half, who arms wrapped around their stands outside the scrum, backs, grabbing their shirts. yells, "Attention!" and all players in the scrum lower On the second line are two locks. The locks are gen- their hips. The scrum half erally the tallest members of then yells, "Go!" and rolls the team. This is to aid them the ball 'hamburger' style into the middle of the scrum. in another part of the game The scrum half then runs to called a line out. The locks reach between the legs of the the back of the scrum waiting for the ball to clear the props and hold the bottom scrum. of the props' shirts with one hand as the other hand is This is where the fun used to tightly starts. Both pull the two sides of the locks together "Our job is to fight for scrum push by their shorts. forward trythe ball and win the ing to jockey On either for position end of the ball." so their locks is a hooker can flanker. The Walter Cespedes move the flankers supt - USU Rugby Head Coach ball backport the locks : ward. The with their ' hookers job shoulders so the scrum doesn't collapse is to kick the ball backward on itself. The flankers are on through his team's side of the outside of the scrum so the scrum so they can get they can break free quickly possession of the ball. The if the opposing team gets hooker has to fight because possession of the ball during the scrum is constantly movthe scrum. Behind the two ing and the hooker on the locks is the No. 8 position. opposing team is trying to This player moves with the get the ball on his side. The scrum waiting for the ball to scrum continues to move emerge through the back of forward step by step until the scrum. the bal] has cleared the scrum. The first step to a scrum is for all eight players to get Once the ball has cleared in their positions described the scrum, the number 8 or above. The forwards all scrum half picks up the ball crouch low. Once the referee and yells, "Balls away!" He says, "Engage," the props then throws it backward to and hooker of each team the fly half and the scrum is lock heads with the opposover. The ball is back in play ing team, forming a giant and the players get back to huddle. tackling each other. Since the scrum is for a -sethhawkins@cc.usu.edu Now on Sale abUSU Booksbore James SchultzMhutti@cc.usu.edu THE UTAH STATE rugby team practices their scrum. p£OPL£ we James khultz/schultz&c.usu.edu THE AGGIE RUGBY team pushes a scrum machine at Mount Logan Middle School Tuesday. DUBOSE From page 6 "I think he has the personDuBose was ality and the qualifications a member of - all the things you need to do the coachto be a good head coach," he ing staff and said. the team advanced Everywhere DuBose has to its firstbeen as a coach, Peterson said ever NCAA he has always been a winner. Utah State won the Eastern tournament in 2000. While Division of the Big West as an assistant coach for Conference in 1999 while BYU's men's volleyball team, DuBose has helped lead the team to an 86-25 record and a national championship. DuBose said he decided to return to USU for two reasons. The first was the fact that he coached here before and the second was the fact that his wife is from Cache Valley. "I've had success in other Beijing changing for Olympics O (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE -John Roderick reported/or the APfrom East Asia during thefour tumultuous decades thatfolloxved World War II. In an occasional series, he remembers China's rocky past and examines the impact of those events as the country prepares to host the 2008 Olympics. Beijing, one of the fabulous cities of antiquity, is experiencing late-life growing pains as it feverishly struggles to look more modern for the 2008 Olympics. The trip-hammers, cranes and concrete mixers are going full throttle to build what the city confidently promises to be the best stadiums, swim- ming pools, gymnasiums were located near wells. and playing fields to host the They came into use durinternational games since ing the era of the Mongol their revival in 1896. emperor Kublai Khan, who made Beijing his capital, and But the process of tidydefined the city during the ing up a city steeped in hisMing dynasty about a huntory but hurtling toward the dred years later. future threatens to wipe out one of Beijing's unique archiOften containing gracetectural and social jewels, the ful gardens and moon gates, hutong. their occupants lived cheek by Narrow lanes which lead jowl, but the courtyard's high to the walled compounds walls kept neighbors as disblanketing much of the tant or as close-as they chose Chinese capital, the hutongs to be, one of the secrets of are masterpieces in the art of successful living in a crowded living. 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