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The Notre Dame Rugby Football Club is the official rugby football club at the University of Notre Dame. It is the oldest collegiate rugby club in the Midwest and currently plays in the National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) D1, one of the highest levels of college rugby in the U.S. [3]
Rugby has been played in universities since as early as the 1800s, but in the 1960s rugby found a foothold in colleges, led by Catholic colleges such as Notre Dame and particularly Jesuit universities such as Boston College and St. Joseph's in Philadelphia. [11]
Notre Dame reinstated rugby in 2007, however, due in part to the "explosive growth of rugby in the nation's Catholic high schools" and Notre Dame's desire to offer a program to attract rugby-playing students. [29] Notre Dame began the 2007–08 season in Division 2, but their 8–1–1 record merited a promotion to Division 1 in the spring of 2008.
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Division 1-A Rugby (formerly known as the College Premier Division) is the highest level of college rugby within the United States and is administered by USA Rugby.Division 1-A rugby is modeled after NCAA athletic competitions, with the 40 D1-A rugby schools divided into seven conferences: East, Midwest, Rocky Mountain, California, Big Ten, Lonestar River, and Independent.
Fighting Irish Media, founded in 2011 as Fighting Irish Digital Media, [4] is a sports video production company on the campus of the University of Notre Dame that produces national and regional live broadcasts, social media videos, and live videoboard shows for Notre Dame Fighting Irish Athletics.
The college was a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level and fielded athletic teams known as the Falcons. [8] Notre Dame was a member of the Mountain East Conference (MEC), a Division II conference that began playing in the 2013–14 school year. [9]
Rugby East [4] Pos. Team Record BP Pts; 1 Navy: 7–0 4 32 2 Life: 5–1–0 6 26 3 Notre Dame College: 4–1–1 3 21 4 Mount St. Mary's: 4–2 2 18 5 St. Bonaventure: 4–3 2 18 6 University of Mary Washington: 3–3 4 16 7 Army: 2–4–1 4 14 6 Kutztown: 2–5 6 14 9 Queens: 2–4 3 11 10 Southern Virginia: 1–5 3 7 11 Penn State: 0–6 3 3