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Gaelic football is especially vulnerable to code-switching, for reasons outlined by rugby union journalist Hugh Farrelly in 2009: The parochialism that is the GAA's greatest strength (every village in Ireland has a local team) is also its Achilles heel for, with no viable international outlet, the Association is vulnerable to other sports.
The following list documents rugby union players who have played for more than one national team ... List of players who have converted from one football code to another;
The Chicago Riot Rugby Football Club is a Division III rugby union team based out of Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] It is a member of the Chicago Area Rugby Football Union and the Midwest Rugby Football Union. The Riot play league matches throughout Illinois, as well as numerous tournaments and friendly matches in the Midwest.
The Chicago Hounds are an American professional rugby union team based in the Chicago metropolitan area that competes in Major League Rugby (MLR). The team was founded in 2022 and is co-owned by a small group of investors including majority owner Peter Bernick and part-owners (and longtime Chicago rugby players) Matt Satchwell and Phil Groves.
The Chicago Area Rugby Football Union (CARFU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in the Chicago metropolitan area. CARFU is part of the Midwest Rugby Football Union (MRFU), which is also the governing body for the Allegheny, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin LAU's.
The International Rugby League allowed qualifying players to pick tier one and two teams that they could switch between. Tonga then reached the Rugby League World Cup semifinals for the first time ...
Led by Cal and Stanford, a number of universities of the West Coast took a different path and did not play rugby union alongside American football BUT instead eliminated America football and changed their game to Rugby union. [10] [11] Other schools that made the switch included Nevada, St. Mary's, Santa Clara, and USC (in 1911). [11]
Founded in 1964, the Chicago Lions Rugby Football Club is a USA Rugby club based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Chicago Lions namesake is taken from the two large lion statues that guard the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago Building .