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The Princeton men traveled to Ithaca, New York in cold weather to play Cornell for the second time in two weeks. Cornell, with last week’s game behind them, sought to reverse the outcome of last Saturday.

It was a windy fall day at Penn Park when Princeton met Penn...

Capitalizing on a flurry of early penalties, defensive mis-cues, and spilt ball Princeton Rugby shot out to an early lead in the match between the Tigers and the Quakers in their first fall match. Buoyed by strong running from their backline as well as well timed off-loads, Princeton opened the scoring. They quickly followed with another backline driven try. With two successful conversions the Tigers staked themselves to an early 14-0 lead. 

The First XV Brown played a solid match defeating a young Yale First XV on a sunny late summer Saturday afternoon. In the second side match, Yale defeated Brown 15-5. Though Brown's 2nd XV was defeated, the Brown coaching staff is impressed by the intensity of numbers of their freshman class.

After Dartmouth Rugby took home the USA 7s Collegiate Rugby Championship and made a deep run to the DI-AA Final 4 in 15s this past season, two Big Green stars are getting an opportunity to showcase their skills on an international stage.

Propelled by an incredibly strong senior class and brilliant play from the newcomers, Dartmouth defeated Arizona 24-5 in the final for back-to-back national titles at the third annual CRC 7s tournament. The DRFC went 3-0 on Day 1 to advance to the quarterfinals, sweeping Delaware, Maryland and Florida. On Day 2, they beat Wisconsin 35-5 and came back to beat old rivals Cal 21-10 in the semis.

A first team of 22 players was selected based on their performance in the fall 2011 League season. Not surprisingly, the list is dominated by Brown and Princeton, given that both teams had outstanding seasons and went on to represent the Ivy Rugby Conference very well in National Playoffs.  Young Harvard and Dartmouth teams contributed some outstanding players to the first team roster as well.  An additional 11 players from across the league garnered enough votes to be given Honorable Mention.