The scrum is a way to restart play after certain stoppages, like a forward pass or knock-on, or when the ball becomes unplayable in a ruck or maul.

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

that it would not reasonably have been expected to occur in a rugby game.” This exercise that was being executed, “illegal and extremely dangerous and is used in an effort to dominate the opposing ...

The 20-minute red card may well make rugby a more entertaining sport but will it also encourage teams to revert to a more upright tackling style? And if the scrum option is removed from a free ...

The opposing scrum-half has to wait until the ball is out of the scrum before making a tackle for the ball. If they don't, the referee will award a penalty. Most offside decisions in rugby union ...

This is the moment rugby players scrummed down to push an ambulance of field to get a player who suffered a 'series of seizures' on the pitch to hospital. Footage posted online shows more than 15 ...

If they haven’t done so with a string of unpopular executive orders in the past month, which have had a tremendous impact on the globe’s geo-political stability, the Americans really peeved ...

World Rugby has implemented three law changes ... will be to laws around free-kicks. For free-kicks, teams can no longer opt for a scrum. Instead, they are required to tap or kick the ball to ...

But generally the Stormers scrum is the dominator rather ... of power of the last meeting between these teams it would not be the first time in rugby history that such a thing has happened.