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Chicago Blaze (rugby)
Chicago Blaze Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Lemont, Illinois. The Blaze's first side competes in the Midwest Rugby Football Union's Division II class. History In 1982, the Windy City Nomads merged with the Amoco Rugby Club to form the Chicago Blaze Rugby Football Club. The new club would retain the colors blue for Amoco and red for Nomads. The first Blaze jerseys had the red and blue hoops. Peter Thornley, one of the founding members and was instrumental to the Blaze future by bring together the two clubs and making what had been just an idea of being the first club team in the United States of America to actually own its own pitch. Before the creation of the clubhouse & field in 1990, the Blaze played at the forest preserve fields on 75th St and Rt 53 in Naperville, but community disapproval of the social aspect of post game celebrations, was what ultimately led the club to look into buying their own field. Thornley, purchased a 9-acre farm on Smith Rd in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CARFU
The Chicago Area Rugby Football Union (CARFU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in the Chicago metropolitan area. CARFU is part of the Midwest Rugby Football Union (MRFU), which is also the governing body for the Allegheny, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin LAU's. All local and territorial unions are part of USA Rugby. Men's Division I *Chicago Griffin*Chicago Lionsbr> Division II * Chicago Blaze (rugby), Chicago Blaze (Lemont, IL*Lincoln Park (Chicago*Southside Irish (Chicago*Chicago Riot (Chicago Division III *Fox Valley Maoris (St. Charles, IL*Chicago Westside Condor *IASCW Shamrocks (Manhattan, IL*Illiana Misfits Rugby (Hammond, IN*Northwest Indiana Exiles (Hobart, I*Northwest Woodsmen (Schaumburg, IL*Rockford Raven Division IV *Chicago Blue (Law Enforcement Rugby*Chicago Dragon*Chicago Roosters (Wheaton, IL*Kellogg Graduate School of Management *Lake County Gladiators Women's Women's Premiere League (WPL) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |