Cardenales Rugby Club, or simply Cardenales, is 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 it ...

and

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

club from

San Miguel de Tucumán San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Argentina, ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. Founded in 1944 as a rugby club, Cardenales co-founded the

Unión de Rugby de Tucumán The Tucuman Rugby Union ( es, Unión de Rugby de Tucumán) or URT is the organisational body that controls the game of rugby union in the province of Tucumán, Argentina. History Rugby was first played in Tucumán in 1915, when British enthusia ...

. One of the oldest rugby clubs in Tucumán, Cardenales won the

Torneo del Noroeste The Torneo Regional del NOA (NorOeste Argentino – Argentine North-West), also known as Torneo del Noroeste, is a regional rugby union competition in Argentina. Originally, only clubs from the Tucumán RU took part. In successive editions the c ...

4 times.

History

In 1944, rugby enthusiasts from San Miguel de Tucumán were planning on founding a provincial union in order to facilitate the practice of the sport in the region. However, at the time only 3 rugby clubs existed in the city: Tucumán Rugby Club, Universitario and

Club Natación y Gimnasia Club Natación y Gimnasia is a rugby union and field hockey club from San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Founded in 1930 as a multi-sports club, Natación y Gimnasia is registered with the Unión de Rugby de Tucumán. Despite its name, swimming an ...

; and the minimum number of clubs required to found a provincial union was four. With this in mind, students from all over the province met in Natación's club house and decided to found Cardenales Rugby Club. Along with the other three clubs, Cardenales became a co-founder of the Unión de Rugby del Norte (today's Unión de Rugby de Tucumán) that same year. A

section for women was started at the club in the 1980s.

Titles

(4): 1954, 1964, 2002, 2013

References

External links

Official website
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