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The Wisconsin State Fair is an annual event held at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The modern fair takes place in August (occasionally beginning late July) and lasts 11 days.
Wisconsin State Fair Park, 1934–51; Marquette Stadium, 1952; Milwaukee County Stadium, 1953–1994; The first Milwaukee game was played on December 3, 1922, against the Racine Legion. The 1939 Championship between the Packers and the New York Giants was played at State Fair Park in what is currently known as the Milwaukee Mile. The Packers ...
The Wisconsin Rugby Club (WRC) is a USA Rugby Men's Rugby Union club with sides competing in Division 2 and Division 3. WRC is based in Madison, Wisconsin , United States. Wisconsin is the 2013 & 1998 USA Rugby Division 2 National Champions, 2015 & 2012 USA Rugby Division 2 National Runners-up, and 2008 3rd Place finisher.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department is a law enforcement agency that protects the fair grounds and, if necessary, the area surrounding it. Officers enjoy full police powers, and has close connections to the West Allis Police Department. [4] The department was founded in 1907 as a police entity.
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009.
Rugby union in the United States revival beyond University of California and Stanford University on West Coast and certain Universities (which became part of the Ivy League in the mid-1950s) accelerated in the 1960s and 1970s, as many colleges started club rugby teams. [15] USA Rugby, the body that governs rugby in the U.S., was founded in 1975.
The Central Wisconsin State Fair returns to the Marshfield Fairgrounds Aug. 20-25 with live music, a demolition derby, bull riding, carnival, classic fair foods and more.
The club was founded in 1975 as Derry's Rugby Club but rebranded as the Milwaukee Barbarians in 2012 after series of name changes including the Milwaukee Harlequins and the West Side Harlequins. Over the years, the club has made numerous appearances in the National Club Championship tournament in various divisions.