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Brown and Yale make it to Day 2 of the CRC
After Day One of the USA 7s Collegiate Rugby Championship qualifier pool play, 16 teams remain in the Cup Round.
Bracket A
In Bracket A, Kutztown, Miami of Ohio and Air Force all ended the day 3-0. They are ranked according to point differencial, with Miami takings the #1 seed followed by KU and then Air Force. Three teams, UCLA, Delaware and New Mexico, all finished 2-1. Delaware takes the #4 seed with a +89 points differential, followed by New Mexico and then UCLA.
Posted: 02/11/2011
Shouldn't Yale Make it to the Collegiate Rugby Championships?
PPL Park just outside Philadelphia will host the USA 7s Collegiate Rugby Championships (CRC) June 4-5. With Central Washington winning the CRC Qualifier in Las Vegas, 12 of the teams set to attend: CWU, Utah, Cal, Arizona, LSU, Penn State, Army, Navy, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Temple and Boston College.
But there are four places left. Who gets them? Alex Goff (www.rugbymag.com) weights in on who he think the four teams should be.
Posted: 02/11/2011
Brown's Miles Craigwell will play for the USA in Vegas this weekend
Miles Craigwell recieved an honorable mention All-Ivy selection in his senior season as an outside linebacker on the Brown University football team. As a member of Brown's Class of 2009, Miles and his Brown teammates won the Ivy League Championship. Unfortunately for Brown, Miles did not play rugby in college.
Posted: 02/10/2011
Brown 7s Squad Set for Vegas
On February 10-11, just outside the Las Vegas USA 7s stadium, Vegas will also host a Collegiate 7s CRC Qualifier, with the winner earning a spot at the CRC in Philadelphia, which will be broadcast once again on NBC.
Brown University has put its chips all in. Brown's head coach David LaFlamme has been "working the boys hard" back in Providence, RI as Brown hopes to grab that free pass to the CRC in June. "Eight out of the 12 selected Brown student athletes to attend this weekend are in the running for All-Ivy," chimed in LaFlamme in a recent interview.
Posted: 02/09/2011
Yale Sends 7s Team to Vegas
As 7s rugby increases in popularity and the Olympics approach, Yale's ever-expanding rugby program has also increased its emphasis on the 7s game.
The Yale rugby team has entered a side into the Las Vegas 7s this weekend. The winner of this weekend's tournament will take the last opening in the Rugby 7s Championships to be played in Philadelphia and aired on NBC in early June.
Posted: 02/08/2011
Rugby in America: Worth a try
THIS weekend tens of millions of eyes will be glued to television screens as the Pittsburgh Steelers meet the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl, which takes place in Arlington, Texas on February 6th. American aficionados of rugby union can only dream of the Croesian sums of money that are lavished on American football, a sport that vaguely resembles rugby in wimpish armour-plating. But although their resources are far more modest they have achieved some notable successes.
Posted: 02/04/2011
Buzz McClain Reviews Rugby Movie ‘Play On’
Another year, another rugby movie. Another American rugby movie. The rest of the world’s rugby-playing countries should be ashamed for not even attempting to keep up with our output.
(Come on, New Zealand, whatchu got?)
Posted: 02/01/2011
“PLAY ON” Receives Great Critical Feedback
“It’s not always what you do that matters. It’s what you do next. Get up. Play on”. So goes the tagline from the latest full-length feature production to join the ranks of rugby movies like “Invictus” and “Forever Strong”. The film “Play On” was made possible largely through the efforts of two Dartmouth Rugby alumni; Dave Story Class of ’85 directed and co-wrote the film, while Class of ’87 alum and former USA 7’s Captain Al Dekin co-wrote and produced the movie.
Posted: 01/31/2011
USA 7s Rugby
Here we go. USA 7s is fast approaching. Ivy League Rugby is all in for USA 7s. Go USA! Gates open at 8am February 12th at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, NV. Be there.
USA 7s Schedule is now posted!
USA Matches
11:58 Day 1, Match 8 - Eagles vs. The Sprinboks
2:20 Day 1, Match 13 - Eagles vs. Somoa
6:25 Day 1, Match 24 - Eagles vs. Japan
The Ivy League
Ivy League is the name generally applied to eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale) that over the years have had common interests in scholarship as well as in athletics. Stanley Woodward, New York Herald Tribune sports writer, coined the phrase in the early thirties.