Walter Chauncey Camp, deservedly, earned the sobriquet “Father of American Football.” Without Camp’s changing the rules of rugby, and his doggedness in lobbying the Rules Committee of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) to vote for...
Last weekend’s 38-29 win over Rugby New York in Hoboken, New Jersey, would have meant plenty to all donning red, white and blue, but to Cam Davidowicz it brought up memories of the Boston-New York sports rivalries that he grew up watching. Born and raised in Essex...
by Allyn Freeman A magazine cartoon depicts two, tiny mammals peering out of foliage in the immediate aftermath of the meteor slamming into the Yucatan (Mexico) Peninsula sixty-six million years ago that eradicated the dinosaurs. One animal queries, “Hey, where...
By Allyn Freeman In 1877, a total of eight eastern colleges played rugby under the same rules formalized by the Rugby Union Code in England, These schools numbered Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Harvard, Columbia, Rutgers, Stevens (NJ), and Tufts. The colleges in the...
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 with its own set of codified rules...
By Joe Harvey Playing for the New England Free Jacks for a second Major League Rugby season, Joe Johnston is raring to go for the team’s second game of the 2022 season against Old Glory DC this Friday night. Joining the team ahead of the 2021 campaign, the...
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