SEVENS HISTORY: NEW YORK 7S – Part III By Allyn Freeman The first seven-a-side tournament in the United States occurred in New York City during Thanksgiving of 1959. The New York RFC inaugurated the event where it would become known as the NY 7s. American...
SEVENS HISTORY: PACE AND POPULARITY – Part II By Allyn Freeman For many decades, the end-of-season Middlesex and Melrose rugby sevens events garnered favorable media attention in England and Scotland. The tournaments were advertised as fun and crowd pleasing...
SEVENS HISTORY: MELROSE AND MIDDLESEX – Part I By Allyn Freeman (Photo: Melrose 7s Field.) Rugby Union traces its ancestry back to William Webb Ellis when he picked the ball up on the Close grounds at Rugby School in 1823. Eventually, the rowdy student versus...
Full Contact CEO Season 4 Zack Frongillo has been a baseball fan all his life, a Red Sox Fan as a matter of fact. So when he received a video message from the Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole asking to join the team as the Director of Entertainment, he jumped at the...
Rugby in America – Harvard and Yale 1875 By Allyn Freeman With the close of the year 1874, Harvard could consider the past football-playing season a success as McGill University in Canada had introduced the new sport of rugby union to the college. Rugby arrived...
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