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My Alma Mata, Cornell University, recently hired a new head football coach. Keeping up as well as I can with the happenings of my old school, I clicked through an email to read about what we were getting. Something struck a cord in Kent Austin's quote.
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Brown Rugby kicks off its 50th year with a tour to Bermuda from Friday, March 26 to Saturday, April 3. Why Bermuda for our 50th you might ask?
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Harvard traveled to rival Yale this past weekend, looking to end the regular Ivy League season on a high note. The HRFC left Cambridge early Saturday morning and looked ready to play after the familiar bus ride to New Haven.
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The Dartmouth Rugby team had its 2009‐2010 season ended Saturday at the hands of the Syracuse University Hammerheads in the Northeast semi‐finals. The 5‐6 loss in the rain at West Point, NY, the first of the year for the Dartmouth side, cost the Big Green a spot in the national round of sixteen next spring.
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Dartmouth and Harvard represented the Ivies today in the quarterfinals of the NRU D1 championships. Dartmouth defeated Boston College 50-8 while Harvard fell to Syracuse 19-36. Dartmouth advances to the semis.
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Dartmouth and Harvard advance to the first round of the Northeast playoffs. Second seed Harvard heads upstate to Syracuse, while Dartmouth hosts Boston College at Brophy Field.
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After a lopsided 69-10 loss to Harvard in Round 3 of the Ivy League Championship Series, Brown showed tremendous improvement taking Harvard to the final whistle before losing a heart breaker. Harvard's last second try gives Harvard a 25-24 victory over Brown.
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Location: Soldiers Field Park, Harvard University
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In a season that has seen Dartmouth only rarely not in complete control of a match, the nationally‐ranked Big Green were put to the test by a physical and well‐coached Brown side to finish out the Ivy League play. Trailing Dartmouth by 12-5 in the first half, Brown was unable to upset the undefeated Dartmouth.
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Location: Brown University Rugby Pitch
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Cornell defeats visiting Columbia 21-5 in round 7 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series on homecoming weekend in Ithaca. Cornell, previously the only winless team in the Ivies gets a tally in the win column.
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Location: Cornell University Rugby Pitch
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Princeton spoiled Penn's chances to pick up their second win of the season as the University of Pennsylvania Rugby Club hosted the Tigers in Round 7 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009 at historic Franklin Field.
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Location: Franklin Field, University of Penn
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Brown matched the Dartmouth Seconds for the first half of the match. Dartmouth scored just before the half to take a 12-10 lead into intermission. The Big Green swept away Brown in the second half. The final was 36-10 Dartmouth.
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Location: Brown University Rugby Pitch
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In Sunday’s Match against winless Cornell, Yale went out to a seven-try, 45-3 first half lead and then cruised home to a 60-3 win. Yale’s record is now 4-2.
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On a cold, blustery New Hampshire day, undefeated Dartmouth went out to a 19-3 halftime lead over the University of Pennsylvania and then scored 36 unanswered second half points to cruise home with a 55-3 win. Dartmouth’s Brothers led all scorers with 18 points (2 tries and 4 conversions).
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Location: Brophy Field, Corey Ford Clubhouse
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Cornell played one of their best games of the season leading and holding Harvard close throughout the entire match. Cornell came out fired and determined to prove to themselves and others that they were not a team to be taken lightly.
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Dartmouth sloshed its way to a tough win in the rain, downing a perennial rival and previously unbeaten Harvard side 31‐0. Rain had already soaked Brophy for a week as drizzle hung in the air throughout the match, the skies occasionally opening up to pour on the players.
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Location: Brophy Field, Corey Ford Clubhouse
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Brown completely dominated Yale in the second half scoring the last 21 points of the match in Week 3, Round 4 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009.
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Location: Brown University Rugby Pitch
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The battle of the 0-3 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009 was a little more one-sided this past Saturday in Philadelphia, as Penn scored all the points winning 41-0.
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Location: Memorial Hall Field
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Week 2 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009.
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Week 2 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009. After last week's unlucky loss to Brown, Cornell came out fired and determined to get back to winning ways. They quickly put Princeton on the back foot and Freshman Scrum-half Adam Webb scored by going on the blind-side of a ruck in the 5th minute.
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Location: West Windsor Fields
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Brown hosted Yale and made quick work of the Bulldogs scoring two trys in the first 8 minutes on route to a 62 point win. The match was the home opener and first league match of the season.
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After a victory against Penn, Harvard made the trip to Princeton for the second game of the 2009 Fall Season. The starting XV looked rested and recovered after their match the day before, and the HRFC hoped to repeat their dominating performance.
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Location: West Windsor Fields
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On day two of week 1 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009, Brown traveled from Saturday night's match against Columbia at Baker Field to Ithaca, NY to face the Big Red of Cornell on their home pitch on Pine Tree Road.
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Location: Cornell University Rugby Pitch
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It was back and forth with Brown and Columbia at Columbia's Home Stadium Picth @ Baker's Field on the university campus. Week 1 of the Ivy League Rugby Championship Series 2009 was underway with a hard-fought battle of Ivy Leaguers.
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Location: Baker Field, Columbia University
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Harvard opened its season with a trip to the University of Pennsylvania. The game was Harvard’s first under the new Ivy League Fall Schedule, which promises both excellent competition and intense rivalries in the years to come.
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Location: Memorial Hall Field
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Big Green Take First Match of Inaugural Ivy League Season 91‐3 Dartmouth Rugby marked an historic day in college rugby with a big win at Cornell in Ithaca, New York.
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The Ivy League Rugby Tournament is now a full-fledged league. As a preview of this fall’s inaugural Ivy League Series Championship, e-RugbyNews.com asked each team to preview what we might expect on the field of play, and on campus.
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For the first time in the history of Ivy League rugby, all eight ivy teams will compete in an established league. This weekend leads off with 8 games on the card. Four games Saturday; followed by four on Sunday.
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When I ran into former Brown captain, Michael Bernstein ’82 at a Red Sox game last summer, we hadn’t seen each other since he had graduated. Mike wanted an update on the team and asked several times what Brown rugby needed.
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January, 2010 will kick off a year-long celebration of 50 Years of Brown Rugby success. Although plans are still being formulated, here are a few of the events we are anticipating.
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The coaches and administrators from the eight Ivy League Schools announce the 2009 Ivy League All-Stars. Congratulations to all participants in the 2009 Ivy League Championships.
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The Brown women finished the year ranked #3 in Division 1 and 6 Brown players were named to the US All American squad.
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Led by wing Chris Downer’s three tries, Dartmouth College won the 2009 Ivy League Rugby Championship with a 62-13 win over Harvard in the final. Although the Harvard match was a blowout, it was the closest any team came, as Dartmouth outscored its three opponents by the combined tally of 275-13.
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The 2009 Ivy Rugby Championship finals are slated for a full Sunday schedule of games at the Columbia University Soccer Stadium. The stadium seats 3,500 people. Saturday preliminary matches will be held at the Yale Rugby Field which is located in the far rear corner of the athletic fields, near the Yale Bowl behind the softball and lacrosse stadiums.
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The scores are all in ... Dartmouth won bigger - twice - today than most likely anyone has ever won big in one day. Harvard outplayed home team Yale to have the opportunity to line up against Dartmouth in the Ivy Championships tomorrow.
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No team has won more 'recorded' Ivy Championships than Dartmouth. Dartmouth won big today. Recorded, is the key word here. We know that rugby has been alive and well in the Ivy League since the 1870's. We know the first recorded 1873 'football game' between Harvard and Yale was, in fact, a rugby game. Come on!
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The Brown women head back to the final four May 1-2 at Stanford. They open Friday May 1 at 1:00 v Stanford. The match will be webcast on USA rugby site.
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The Yale Rugby site, sponsored by features recent news on the home page and an image of their rugby crest. Sections include Roster, Match Videos and even Community Service.
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Dartmouth's Alex Magleby will coach the 2009 Collegiate All-American team, which has not set any tour plans.
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And you think you have problems with your equipment. Harvard flanker Patrick Holkins took a direct hit to his right ear against Dartmouth in 2006 that demolished his hearing aid. “I accepted that, for safety reasons, I would have to play ‘unaided,’” he says. Meaning, he would play without any ability to hear what was going on at all.
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With the tournament dates set and the final arrangements being made including a full final round at the Columbia University’s Baker Field Athletic Complex in Manhattan, New York City, New York, the Ivy Championship looks to be as good as it gets for 2009.
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Besides Bill Clinton (second row, Oxford, sustained a concussion) and George W. Bush (fullback, Yale, delivered a famous sucker punch), we can add Woodrow 'Tommy' Wilson to the plaque of U.S. presidents who have dallied with rugby.
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Yale Rugby has established a home for rugby game footage. The YouTube site will be updated throughout each season with game film.
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Brown Women executed a patient, controlled game plan to perfection and beat the women of Army 24-15 to earn the number 1 seed from the Northeast and a third trip to the national championships.
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Much is written about the birth of American Football in the Ivy League in the 1870s, but it was not until 1880 that Walter Camp lobbied the Ivies and succeeded to change the game from 15-a-side to 11-a-side. If we read between the lines of this American Football article, it's rugby that was predominantly played in the second half of the 1870s and it was played at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia.
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All eight ivy coaches weighed in to select the 2008 all-ivy squad. A total of 59 players were singled out for their excellence at the 2008 Ivy tournament. Congratulations to all!
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Dartmouth won the 2008 Ivy League Championship in what can only be described as extremely convincing fashion. Led by two tries from wing Dave Chattman, the Big Green destroyed Harvard 41-0 in the final.
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Brown won two of three, beating Yale in round one, losing to Harvard in round two and coming back on Sunday to beat Penn ( who had beaten Princeton) for third place. What was characteristic for Brown was its commitment to the team pattern, solid defense and the inability of any of Brown’s opponents to outplay our forwards.
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