The Newport Rugby Football Club are a
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
club based in
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, ...
, USA. Founded in 1980, the club competes in the
New England Rugby Football Union
The New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) is a Geographical Union (GU) for rugby union teams in New England.
Prior to 2013, NERFU had been a local area union ("LAU"), and part of the Northeast Rugby Union (NRU), which is the governing body for ...
Men's Club Division II.
Rugby union teams in Rhode Island
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