The newest alignment of rugby-playing colleges in Texas will begin with eight members, at the exclusion of a few notable names. The Southwest Conference Rugby Conference (SWCRC) became an official conference recently when USA Rugby accepted its bid to join the D1 hierarchy. Founding conference schools – Baylor, TCU, North Texas, University of Houston, Rice, [...]
As usual, we update as we receive scores. Thursday, March 31 High School Houston Strake Jesuit 43 Tomball 14 Friday, April 1 High School (Varsity) Houston St. Thomas 43 Austin Westlake 31 (JV) St. Thomas 47 Westlake 3 Saturday, April 2 High School Women HARC 25 Texas U-19 5 College St. Edward’s 19 Wayne State [...]
NSCRO (National Small College Rugby Organization), which is College D3, has playoffs this weekend. St. Ed’s travels up to Wayne, Nebraska for plains-style fun. The Hilltoppers take on the hosts, Wayne State in the first semi, while North Dakota State takes on Occidental out of California in the other semi. Thursday, March 31 High School [...]
St. Edward’s, Rice and Texas State won their respective divisions in the Texas college competition. But what if other teams wanted more games, as the champs ready themselves for playoffs? The Texas Rugby Union decided to get some of the non-playoff teams some extra games (which is really what we all want as rugby players, [...]
It is a busy, busy time in Texas rugby these days. A quick look at the schedule and you will see that we are bigger and stronger than ever – at least in terms of numbers of teams. We still have our problems and weaknesses, but the game is growing in our fair state. Enough [...]
Games to be played on February 26. The first round of playoffs for the Mens D2 and D3 playoffs have been set. The teams and scheduled matches are detailed below. Congrats to all the teams. Link to TRU site. Division II 1. Rice 2. Baylor 3. Univ. of Dallas 4. Univ. of North Texas The [...]
The weather is playing havoc with some games – Friday night’s high school matches in particular. The Sun should be out and all things warmed up by Saturday. The snow is melting at the RugbyInTexas survival bunker, located in the rugged mountains outside of Galveston. And it is supposed to be 60 degrees all over [...]
Well, another Saturday is in the books here in the Land Of The Yellow Rose. That means it was a rugby day, and there were several games played. High School Strake Jesuit 17 Alamo Heights 12 College UT I 60 UD I 7 Lamar 10 UT II 7 UT III 19 UD II 3 St. [...]
Well, well. We come to the point in the week where this fair blog lists the games coming up in the land between the Sabine and the Rio Grande. Off the subject, you should really read “The Long Walk” by Slavomir Rawicz. It is now a movie starring Ed Harris and Colin Farrell called “The [...]
While national eyes may have been on Dubai, the State of Texas roared back into post-Turkey Day action. As always, we update ‘em as we gets ‘em. Friday, Dec. 3 UT 22 TX State 20 – Here is Rugby Mag’s take on D-I rugby in Texas. Texas State II 12 UT II 0 Saturday, Dec. [...]
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