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The top nations in the rugby world will all be in action as a hectic programme of November Tests gets underway across Europe. The Autumn Nations Series returns a year after a captivating World Cup ...
The USA Club Rugby XVs Championship is an annual competition pitting the best rugby union clubs in the United States. First played in 1979 under the supervision of the United States of America Rugby Union or USA Rugby .
The onset of World War I gave Stanford an out: in 1918, the Stanford campus was designated as the Students' Army Training Corps headquarters for all of California, Nevada, and Utah, and the commanding officer, Sam M. Parker, decreed that football was the appropriate athletic activity to train soldiers and rugby was dropped.
Stanford rugby team playing the All Blacks in 1913. Stanford has fielded a college rugby team since 1906, and replaced football entirely until 1917. Stanford achieved one of the most surprising victories of American rugby's early history by beating a touring Australian club team in 1912. [50] Rugby remained a varsity sport at Stanford until ...
The 2023 Rugby World Cup is getting under way on Friday 8 September when hosts France take on much-fancied New Zealand in a mouth-watering opener in Paris.. A lop-sided draw means pools A and B ...
The 2024 Division 1-A Rugby Championship is the twelfth season of the Division 1-A Rugby championship, the annual university rugby union competition run by USA Rugby for teams from the top twelve college teams in the United States.
NBC, along with its Universal Sports affiliate network, broadcast ten matches of the 2011 Rugby World Cup—three on NBC and seven on Universal—marking the first time the Rugby World Cup was broadcast live on TV in the U.S. [43] NBC broadcast a November 1, 2014, match between the United States and New Zealand, earning a 0.7 rating. [44]
The 2025 mid-year rugby union internationals (also known as the summer internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter internationals in the Southern Hemisphere) are international rugby union matches that will be mostly played in the Southern Hemisphere during the July international window. 2025 will see the British & Irish Lions touring Australia.