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Ag rugby players aren't crazy— but it doesn't hurt
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By TONY CORNETT
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M Men’s Rugby
Club wants to get physical in their
bid for rugby supremacy in the na
tion. Last year they knocked on the
door.
This year they are going to kick it
down. In rugby you have to think
tough.
.The Aggies had bones broken and
bodies bruised and skinned on their
way to winning the State Collegiate
Championship and the State Club
Chlmpionship. They ended up plac
ing third in the Western National
CoUegiates.
“That puts us anywhere in the top
10 to 15 teams in the nation,” says
club president, Stuart Knowlan.
At Wednesday’s practice Knowlan
and some of the other veterans were
introducing the new players to ac
tual game conditions by bouncing
them around the playing area or
“pitch” as it’s called.
“We’ve got a whole bunch of rook
ies,” said Knowlan, “so we’re going
to start off with as many of the older
players as we can at first, and then
start working some of the rookies in
and teach them (to play). We’ve been
going for the last week and a half
showing little bits and pieces and try
ing to get them some of the basic
skills, but you can’t really under
:rything until you get out
actually do it.”
stand every
there and
And exactly what is “doing it”?
Rugby is a game played on a field
similar to a football field. It’s played
with a ball very similar to a football.
But its not football.
Rugby is a hybrid of soccer, and
the tackle football game that you
used to play, without pads, in your
front yard. It combines the running
and fast pace of soccer for 80 solid
minutes. But rugby allows the two
teams of fifteen to tackle, push and
and crash into each other.
“The basic idea is to keep the ball
moving and flowing,” said Knowlan,
“There’s a lot more going on than in
football.”
Moving and flowing is accom-
E lished by pitching the ball under
and to a teammate while running
headlong down the field toward the
opponent’s goal or kicking the ball in
that same direction. And, like foot
ball, the bottom line is to cross the
equivalent of the other team’s goal
line, place the ball down and score.
The game progresses through
many runs up and down the field
and occasional pauses for what are
known as “scrums” and “line outs.”
Both of these maneuvres get the ball
back into play when it either goes
out-of-bounds or is hopelessly bur
ied under a pile of players.
The scrum is rugby’s most inter
esting spectacle.
Opposing teams, amid much
grunting and groaning, lean over
and lock arms with their teammates
and push against the other team
while the ball is thrown into their
midst.
With the game requiring such
physical contact, injuries ranging
from cuts, bruises and pulled mus
cles, do occur. Sometimes the inju
ries are more serious.
Mark Stevens had his jaw broken.
he took a swing at me and popped
me.”
As a spectator, there is usually no
problem becoming familiar with the
way the game is played.
“There’s always people who come
out for the second or third time or
those who drive by and see it (the
game). What they usually end up
having to do is talk to somebody on
the sidelines. If nothing else it’s in
teresting.”
“Yeah,” said Stevens, “I was play
ing up in Austin. We were playing_ mg uns oaiuruay
t.u. and some guy didn’t like me, so their practice field.
The rugby team will be serin
j_ ing this Saturday at 1:30 p.i
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