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Mystic River Rugby Club
The Mystic River Rugby Club, sometimes called Boston Mystic, is a New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) club, founded in 1974, located in Malden, Massachusetts and Melrose, Massachusetts, who field teams in Division 1 American Rugby Premiership and Division 2 Rugby Union in the United States and are the current 2018 USA Rugby D1 National Champions. Their home field is located at Pine Banks Park. Their primary sponsor is Coors Light. History The early years (1970s) The Mystic River Rugby Club was founded in 1974 by 32 members of the Boston Rugby Club, who in true revolutionary spirit, took a great step forward in exercising their independence. These men had long since functioned as a ‘club within a club’ and had developed a distinct style of play both on and off the field. These members were experienced rugby players and immediately the Mystics established a schedule within the first division of New England. They soon became a sought after fixture by teams from all ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston RFC
Boston RFC may refer to: * Boston RFC (England) Boston Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club from Boston, Lincolnshire. Boston Rugby Club was founded in 1927 by Ernst Clark, a gentleman with an interest in giving his boys and their friends something to do, or rather something to keep them o ..., a rugby union club from Boston, Lincolnshire * Boston RFC (United States), a rugby union team based in Boston, Massachusetts {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Saracens
The Seattle Rugby Club (formerly Seattle Saracens and Old Puget Sound Beach after a merger) is a rugby union club based in Seattle. The club travels throughout the US and into Canada. In 2014 the club was ranked as the number one US club while also playing in a Canadian league based in British Columbia ( BCRU). Old Puget Sound Beach was a charter member of the now defunct USA Super League in the Pacific Coast USA Rugby territory. History Founded in 1966, Seattle RFC was a group of enthusiastic rugby players who had responded to an ad in the local Seattle Times looking to get a game of rugby going. Old Puget Sound Beach Rugby Football Club played its first game in the fall of 1971. In 1996, Seattle RFC joined with the local women's rugby club called the Breakers. This proved to be an opportunity for both men and women to prosper in the Pacific Northwest Rugby Football Union. The women's USA Division-1 team has consecutively been within the top 16, ‘Sweet 16’, in the natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patch
Patch or Patches may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Patch Johnson, a fictional character from ''Days of Our Lives'' * Patch (''My Little Pony''), a toy * "Patches" (Dickey Lee song), 1962 * "Patches" (Chairmen of the Board song), 1970, also covered by Clarence Carter * Patch (website), an online news service * "Patches", a song by Dala from the album ''Angels & Thieves'' People * Patch Adams (Hunter Adams, born 1945), American physician and clown * Alexander Patch (1889–1945), WWII U.S. Army general * Harry Patch (1898–2009), WWI British veteran * Horace Patch (1814–1862), American politician Places * Patch, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. * Patch, Gwbert, Ceredigion, Wales Science and technology Computing * Patch (computing), changes to a computer program * patch (Unix), a UNIX utility * PATCH (HTTP), an HTTP request to make a change Electronics * Autopatch or phone patch, from radio to telephone * Patch antenna * Patch cable, to connect devices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Rugby Club 7s (USARC7)
The USA Rugby Club 7s National Championship is the top annual American rugby sevens competition organized by USA Rugby USA Rugby (officially the United States of America Rugby Football Union, Ltd.) is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. Its role is to achieve and maintain “high levels of quality in all aspects of rugb .... It involves the best sixteen men's and women's clubs (32 clubs total) in the United States. First played in November 1985, the tournament moved to the summer in 1986 and has been a fixture of the summer rugby season in the United States ever since. After a few years of informal women's invitationals, a formal women's competition was added to the event in 2011. The event is streamed online annually, typically on YouTube or The Rugby Channel. Results — Men Results — Women Performance by club Men Updated to include results for 2019: *USA Rugby officially considers titles won by OPSB, Seattle-OPSB, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Rugby Club
The New York Rugby Club is a rugby union club in New York. It is the oldest rugby club in the United States, and fields Division I Men's and Women's teams, U-19 Boy's and U-19 Girls teams, two old boy teams, one of which belongs to the non-competitive "Golden Oldies". The NYRC was founded to continue a rugby tradition that dates back to the formation of the NYRFC in 1929. The original club was formed in 1929 as the New York Nomads. They subsequently began competing as the New York Rugby Football Club (New York RFC). The New York RFC played a principal role in the development of the Eastern Rugby Union. It was the only team in the United States to be accepted for membership in the Rugby Union for the 1932-33 international directory and in 1933, hosted the Cambridge University Vandals, the first European club to tour the United States. The New York RFC continued to compete successfully until the beginning of World War II. It disbanded during the War and resumed activities afterwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Haven Old Black RFC
The New Haven Old Black Rugby Football Club is a rugby club in New Haven, Connecticut. They play in Division II of the Empire Rugby Union. Founded in 1986, they play at Boulevard Field in New Haven. The club's colors are black, green and gold. History 1980s Prior to the start of the club in the Spring of 1986, there was no rugby in the Greater New Haven area. A group of Southern Connecticut State University graduates, led by Robert Chester, applied for membership of the NERFU. The NERFU accepted the petition and the club was allowed to play on a probationary basis. After initially feeling the strain of a minimum of two games a week, Old Black went on to have a highly successful inaugural season, culminating in the win of the Connecticut Cup by upsetting Providence in the final. They were awarded full membership of the NERFU in the Fall of 1986. 1990s The year 1993 saw a restructuring of the club, owing to the retirement of a number of the club's early members. That season, Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City Blues (USA Rugby)
The Kansas City Blues play in the USA Rugby Division 1 competition, which is the highest level of amateur competition within USA Rugby. They also field a Division 2 team that offers new or inexperienced players a chance to learn the game while allowing them the opportunity to advance onto the D1 side. During the summer, the Blues also feature one of the most successful 7s programs in the country. The Blues have been a prominent team both regionally and nationally since their inception in 1966 and have a long history of success with many tournament and league championships and several National Championship and National Final Four appearances. The club has also produced many USA National Team players in both 15s and 7s and has hosted dozens of National Team players from other countries as well. Today the Blues are made up of men from all walks of life and various athletic backgrounds. The Blues currently practice and play their home matches at the Children’s Mercy Training Facility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Sprague
Jacob "Jake" Sprague (born December 27, 1984) is an American rugby union player and coach. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Sprague began his rugby career with the Babson College rugby union team, and later played at club level with Division 1 Mystic River Rugby Club. He later played for New York Athletic Club RFC in the Rugby Super League. Sprague has played prop for the USA Eagles XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. His international debut was in November 2009 against Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering .... External links Player Profile eaglesxv.comPlayer Profile USA Rugby 1984 births Living people American rugby union players United States international rugby union players Rugby union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States National Rugby Union Team
The United States men's national rugby union team represents the United States in men's international rugby union. Nicknamed the Eagles, it is controlled by USA Rugby, the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. USA Rugby is a member of Rugby Americas North, one of six regional governing bodies under World Rugby. Until rugby returned to Olympic competition, with sevens at the 2016 Rio Games, the United States was the reigning Olympic rugby champion, having defeated the one other competitor in 1920 and the two other competitors at the 1924 Summer Olympics. , the men's Eagles are ranked 19th in the world by the World Rugby Rankings. Their previous highest ranking was 12th, achieved ahead of the 2019 World Cup. The team's lowest ranking was 20th, first following a winless campaign in the 2008 Churchill Cup and second for a single week in 2022 during the 2023 World Cup qualifying tournament. The highest profile tournament in which the men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices and auxiliary studios in Miami, New York City, Las Vegas, Seattle, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. James Pitaro currently serves as chairman of ESPN, a position he has held since March 5, 2018, following the resignation of John Skipper on December 18, 2017. While ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks, there has been criticism of ESPN. This includes accusations of biased coverage, conflict of interest, and controversies with individual broadcasters and analysts. , ESPN reaches approximately 76 million te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
