I have brought a cab with me, so the moment you are ready we can start." There were others besides the students who were excited about the coming struggle.

All Edinburgh was in a ferment.

Football is, and always has been, the national game of Scotland among those who affect violent exercise, while golf takes its place with the more sedately inclined.
There is no game so fitted to appeal to a hardy and active people as that composite exercise prescribed by the Rugby Union, in which fifteen men pit strength, speed, endurance, and every manly attribute they possess in a prolonged struggle against fifteen antagonists.

There is no room for mere knack or trickery.

It is a fierce personal contest in which the ball is the central rallying point.