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2023 Cornell Women’s Rugby Advances to National and Ivy Championships
After dominating in the Upstate New York Sevens division one tournament, the women’s rugby team will compete in the National Collegiate Rugby Championship tournament in Washington, D.C. on April 28 and 29.
Rugby is a full contact sport that originated in the United Kingdom and involves passing a ball either sideways or backwards between teammates. The team that scores the most points wins the match.
Posted: 08/31/2023
Yale Men Spring 2023
Spring 2023 Team in front of Sterling Memorial Library
Posted: 08/26/2023
Princeton Women Fall 2019
The club team was founded in 1979 and has competed under the national governing body, USA Rugby.
Posted: 08/18/2023
Princeton Men 1876
On Nov. 30, 1876, Princeton and Yale faced off in Hoboken, N.J., playing what would best be described as an 11-on-11 form of rugby.
Posted: 08/18/2023
Columbia Women Fall 2021
As of the fall of 2021, the CU Women's Rugby competed in Division II of the Tri-State League playing fifteens-style rugby in the fall and attends several sevens-style tournaments in the spring including the annual Ivy League Sevens tournament. The team was the reigning champion of the Ivy League Sevens tournament for the women's club division -- won in Spring 2019.
The team welcomes students from all of Columbia University’s undergraduate colleges – Columbia College, Barnard, SEAS, and General Studies – and women of all levels of athletic and sports experience.
Posted: 08/11/2023
"free and easy American interpretation of old English Rugby" John W. Heisman L1892
American interpretation of old English Rugby: John W. Heisman
David Hollenbach created the illustration above depicting a young John Heisman gathering what appears to be a rugby ball. Considering the history of rugby and American football in the 1870s, it's clear that Heisman grew up playing the game of rugby. Following right behind the innovations of Walter Camp at Yale, Heisman picked up the torch at Brown and then the University of Pennsylvania.
Posted: 05/30/2023
1992 Spring Penn Law Rugby Alumni Game
Annual alumni match played at Penn.
Posted: 04/14/2023
1991 Spring Penn Law Rugby Alumni Game
Alumni match played on Penn's campus in the spring.
Posted: 04/14/2023
1878 Penn Foot Ball
The first football teams on Penn's campus were class teams, but these teams developed later than did the teams in cricket, baseball and rowing. The first student publication to mention football at Penn was the 1872 yearbook. The brief description of football contests between Penn classes in the fall of 1871 includes the comment that football had existed at the College before then, but not for a while.
Posted: 04/10/2023
2012 Princeton Women at Cornell
A post from Emil Signes from Oct 6 2012
Posted: 04/06/2023