Brown Rugby

The team clinched its second national championship in Division I National Collegiate Rugby in a nail-biting 23-20 victory over Queens University of Charlotte.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For the second time in three years, the Brown University men’s rugby team won the national championship title in Division I National Collegiate Rugby. 

Brown University claimed the Ivy League title by defeating the Dartmouth Big Green by a score of 40-14 on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Marvel Field in Providence Saturday. Brown also keeps their lead in the Liberty Conference with the victory.

Dartmouth College Brophy Field, Hanover, NH. Brown defeated Dartmouth 15-13 in a tense and hard fought battle for Ivy League supremacy in this fall 2021 League season, overcoming 25 years, yes a quarter century, without a Brown 15’s victory against the Big Green. Both teams entered this final Ivy Conference match having defeated all of their Ivy opponents. Outside the Ivy League, Dartmouth had defeated West Point 21-10 and Brown had lost to West Point 17-14. If history and this season was any indication, this match would be a high scoring affair with Dartmouth likely to win again.

For a third week in a row, Brown’s first XV came away victorious . This time, the victim was Ivy rival UPenn. Despite being the “City of Brotherly Love”, the Bears showed no love for the Quakers as they ran in 7 tries on the day conceding none. This was the last pre-conference outing before the league opener next week at home vs Columbia.

The Brown second XV were limited to a 40-minute game because of field usage time. With a number of new faces, and a few injuries, 23 players saw action in a 19-0 win over a new Penn Second XV.  

The Brown Rugby men won the 2018 Ivy Rugby Conference championship defeating Dartmouth in the final by a score of 22 - nil.