Cal continued undefeated in Rugby in 1885, and the British knew that they had created a monster. Teams Senior . The Junior Pelicans team was established in l979 and defeated the Southwestern Ontario Union Rep. team in its first game. Cart 0. The success of the team stems from the fact that it has a structure behind it, Watkins said. An excellent performance for OBs start to the season, as the 2s also had a convincing win at home. Other teams have accused the club of recruiting and stealing players. Arthur Road Arthur Road The All Blues were founded in 1978, and have since supported female athletes and promoted women's rugby at all levels across the Bay Area. Full Zip pro Active Jacket. Several San Diego State alumni are on the teams roster of 60-plus, and six former Aztecs are on the 25-man traveling squad that will play in Albany. In 2007, the Gaels finished 5th in the country, and AmericanRugbyNews.com named O'Brien College Coach of the Year. He is so steeped in the sport's English roots that he exhorts his side by yelling, "C'mon lads.". Every member of the squad was a collegiate football player and/or a professional football player who had played rugby during his collegiate days. Once again Rugby slid into oblivion as architects designed football stadiums seating up to 100,000.Rugby rebounded, however, in 1932 when US Olympic teammates Ed "Mush" Graff, Lefty Rogers, and a few others incorporated theNorthern California Rugby Football Union. But I think its too early to talk about dynasty, Hickey said. Old Blues RFC Contacts Established 1873 Phone +44 7507 791517 Email oldbluesrfc@gmail.com Address Dornan Fields Arthur Road Motspur Park, nr New Malden UNITED KINGDOM SURREY KT3 6LX General Enquiries Contact: Mark Davey 07886 015010 Directions Directions By Road: At New Malden underpass on the A3 take the Worcester Park exit. Beginning with the season of 1906, the high schools and colleges of California dropped American-style football in favor of Rugby. Men DII & DIII. OLD-SCHOOL ACOUSTIC BLUES - Laid-Back Delta Blues on the Resonator Guitar Justin Johnson 1.43M subscribers Subscribe 36K 1.5M views 1 year ago #blues #acoustic #guitar Want to drift off to. But that is still not the end of it. Stanford, under the legendary Pete Kmetovic, won eight of the first thirteen Monterey Tournaments. Old Blues started flat allowing the Old Wellingtonians to easily break through with a soft try in the corner. Co-Founder & Board Member, BrightHouse, Inc.; Co-Founder, Pricelock; Founder & CEO, TrueCar, Inc. Because it is governed not by the NCAA, but by USA Rugby, they are eligible to play five years. Please use the elements on the right if you wish to construct a richer page content with headers, images and layout grids. A rugby match in front of 5,000 fans in a 70,000-seat bowl is depressing. This is a carousel. A favorite was "Jonestown," a lyrical update of Petula Clark's "Downtown.". Stanfill eases himself into the tub, as does Hawley, head still pounding and ear swollen from his collision. THE LONG, BLUE LINE / One hundred and twenty-five years of the purest of all college sports, rugby at Cal, RUGBYMAG_461_MBK.JPG Colin Hawley, a sophemore at UC Berkeley from Trowbridge, CA, makes a toss during a match against St. Mary's at Witter Rugby Field on campus in Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 13, 2007. photo taken: 1/13/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Colin Hawley MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGxx_4335_MBK.JPG Louis Stanfill racks a clean from the hang position at the athletic facility in Berkeley, CA, on Tuesday, January, 23, 2007. photo taken: 1/23/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Louis Stanfill MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3692_MBK.JPG Lou Stanfill, right, shows some post-game affection to James Keady, in yellow, a senior from Santa Clara, at a fraternity on campus after Cal Rugby shut out UC Davis in Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3808_MBK.JPG Loren Hawley, rugby legend and Cal Alumni, congratulates his son Colin, a sophomore from Trowbridge, CA, immediately following Cal's shut out versus UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Colin Hawley MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3419_MBK.JPG Lucas Watson, freshman, Walnut Creek, CA, is taken down by UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, during Saturday's match January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Lucas Watson MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3787_MBK.JPG Louis Stanfill stretches for control during a line-in as Cal makes its way to a shut out versus UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Louis Stanfill MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, The Cal rugby squad stands for the national anthem before playing UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 For up to date information as to practice times and locations, as well as game times and locations, please call the Old Blues Hotline at (510) 601-9986. Cal lost to the Phoenix club 7 - 4. Leo Gadsby went in underneath the posts (conversion from Will Avery) to take it to 22-10. The Old Blues -- the Cal alumni club that was once so cool it was hired to endorse BMW in a TV commercial -- is defunct. Alex Sattersfield led out a squad of 18 for his first run as Captain of the 1st XV squad accompanied by a raucous crowd of supporters cheering on the Blues, some stalwarts of the club who attended the old boys dinner, and a collection of the walking wounded on the touchline. Welcome to the website of the Old Blue Rugby Football Club. Most of the NorCal players were still playing collegiate rugby and some were playing professional football. From 1979 to 1987, he was a member of the first U.S. World Cup rugby team and a mainstay on the U.S. National Team, prompting his induction into the U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame. The Club fields three sides (I, II and III). The Old Blues have set the standard of excellence for U.S. rugby, one that OMBAC has worked hard to emulate. 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Has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley where he played rugby. Both Stanfill and Hawley plan to do that. Mark Davey then crashed over to put the OBs 12-5 up. USA Rugby officially considers titles won by OPSB, Seattle-OPSB, and Seattle Saracens to be from the same club. It also meant that many colleges and universities, in order to comply with Title Nine, began to eliminate minor men's sports programs, which had varsity status. He started as a feature writer in the People section, which was anchored by Herb Caen's column, and has written about people ever since. OMBAC, the Pacific Coast champion, will face Denver Saturday, and Milwaukee will play Washington. of Defense Language Institute, Chief Marketing Officer, Elance; VP Marketing Posterous, Cal BS Business Administration 1989, MBA Haas 1998, Cal BA 1969, University of Chicago MBA 1986, Northwestern MS 2001, President and CEO, Central Garden & Pet Company, Chief Operating Officer, Lifestyle, Household and Global Operating Functions, Clorox; Chairman of the Board, Clorox and Procter & Gamble Glad Products Joint Venture; Advisory Board Member, Gryphon Investors, Board Member, East Oakland Youth Development Foundation. The Berkeley All Blues Women's Rugby Club is accepting applicants for a wide array of staff positions! "Show support" is all he has to say, and stiff muscles ease onto cold aluminum benches, including Hawley with a possible concussion. The game jerseys look more like what Jack Nicholson would wear in a romantic comedy. It takes half an hour to clean up the grounds, take down the banners, move the stands. Mike Kane / The Chronicle **Tom Rooke, Cal rugby number 8 Louis Stanfill takes a hit while carrying the ball against UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to outlaw it by presidential fiat unless the national rules committee made changes that satisfied the Eastern schools. No other local area union has produced as many players for the National Team (the Eagles) as has the Northern California RU. The graduation rate is 98 percent or better, and the curriculum would seem to include finishing school. Proof came. Team captain Saunders, a San Diego State graduate, has played for OMBAC since 1983. Old Blues Rugby Club | Founded 1873 Excellent Title Chasing Rugby + Superb Social based in Motspur. Mike Kane / The Chronicle CQ LOUIS STANFILL, Cal rugby number 8 Louis Stanfill gets ready in the locker room before taking the field to play UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 They compiled a 3-9-2 record playing the top provincial teams in New Zealand. The skeptical committee replied, "due to the fact that California is the only state playing Rugby in the US, the Committee will give sanction but no financial aid." Affiliations. They don't call it the junior varsity, because that connotes a lower status, and players move back and forth. A good example of this would be the l974 Northern California RU All-Stars. Off the field, the sport doesnt seem much better. "Cal rugby is a one-of-a-kind experience," says Hawley. Watkins also serves as chairman of the U.S.A. Rugby Football Union and is a former president of the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union. View all the teams at Gloucester All Blues Rugby. Mike Kane / The Chronicle CQ LOUIS STANFILL, Cal rugby number 8 Louis Stanfill and teammates congratulate the University of British Columbia from Vancouver Canada after their match in Berkeley, CA, on Wednesday, February, 21, 2007. Both sides play home matches in Motspur Park, South West London. By the time the US Rugby team arrived in Europe, Czechoslovakia and Romania had withdrawn from competition, and France, having won the European championship, was reluctant to play such a rag tag group of inexperienced Californians. "A ball could get caught up in that oak tree. Theyve never been a real threat until this year, when theyve loaded up with new players. He lives in San Francisco and walks three miles a day on the steep city streets. The Berkeley All Blues are a nationally-ranked women's club rugby team. The California Rugby Advisory Board (CRAB) is comprised of alumni and parents of players who together serve the board in its two-fold mission to preserve the legacy of the oldest intercollegiate sport at the University of California and to take an active role in maintaining the financial well being of the program. Theyll be back.. At that time, the British Rugby evangelists of San Francisco converted Cal to Rugby-style football. The addition of these players to Northern California Club and all-star competitions has made an enormous impact. A tournament in Pebble Beach mixed club and college teams to crown an unofficial national champion, then they drained some kegs and sang some songs. The Golden Bears sit quietly on hard wood, but if you pull Lou Stanfill and Colin Hawley off this long, blue bench, they tell the story of the long, blue line that is college rugby at Cal. Men DIII & Women DII. Cal's Louis Stanfill emerges with the ball during the Bears' 32-17 win over the University of British Columbia in the World Cup. Founded in 1963. The Gael lowers his shoulder and the top of his head hits Hawley just above the left ear. 1998 Men's Club Rugby Sweet Sixteen Bracket. SoCal did the same. Super League. The Northern California Rugby Union has had to make many modifications and adjustments in the new era of professional rugby. The 12th Witter has just entered the program. Tony Delacruz, who works in the UC Student Store, was returning from his break sometime after 4pm when he witnessed the man engulfed in flames and rushed to the scene. "We don't want anything we can't pay for ourselves.". Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** James Sehr, Cal rugby number 8 Louis Stanfill makes a toss during a tough match against the University of British Columbia from Vancouver Canada in Berkeley, CA, on Wednesday, February, 21, 2007. OMBAC should be given credit for going out and building a strong team, Hickey said. American football was fierce, and as time went on and injuries mounted, the public became alarmed at its brutalities. "Great old school classy bar with fine liquor offerings in jazzy clean upscale setting. We identified how the Old Blues were benefiting from their relationship with Cal, Watkins said. Devised in New Brunswick, New Jersey on Nov. 6, 1869, when Princeton played Rutgers, this game was what we know today as American gridiron football. On Dec. 2, l882, the first Cal Rugby team to play an outside opponent lined up a group of Rugby-playing ex-Brits calling themselves the Phoenix Rugby Club of San Francisco. All Blues Rugby @AllBluesRugby . It isn't a perfect pitch, like Stanford's, where the Final Four will be played in May. 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At the end, after standing in the end zone and waiting for about 15 minutes, here came the rugby team, all in khaki slacks, brown shoes and belt, white button-down shirts and their varsity sweaters -- a heavy, dark-blue Fred MacMurray cardigan with 15 gold stripes on the sleeves. Between 1920 and 1924, Rugby virtually disappeared once again as American-style football soared in popularity. The monster disappeared from view, however in 1886 when Harvard's Oscar Shafter Howard introduced an East Coast interpretation of Rugby to the Berkeley campus. Updated: May 29, 2022 Blues Logo PNG Both the old and current logos of the New Zealand rugby union team Blues are inspired by the local nature. 75 00 . Why Join Clubs at Berkeley? CEO, James Properties; Land and Cattle, LLC; Rugby Partners Inc. 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Joining the club this season were Sam Vaca, a national team player who previously played with the San Francisco Rugby Club, and Rick Crivellone, an Eagle who came from Portland, Ore. We have become a rugby oasis in the middle of a wasteland, Watkins said. Home; Products; collections; Menu. Warhurst made his mark at the international level representing the USA Rugby Eagles in both 7s and 15s. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Last year, the Aztecs won the national championship, and this year they lost to Cal, a frequent national champion, in the regional finals. There are five players from the U.S. Eagles--the national team made up of the top talent from around the country--playing for OMBAC. Old Blues Rugby Club | Founded 1873 Excellent Title Chasing Rugby + Superb Social based in Motspur. The start to the 2018/19 season saw the 1st XV and 2nd XV running out at Fortress Motspur; the weather being a familiar view, OLD BLUES RECRUITMENT DRIVE IN FULL FORCE, Old Blues RFC Appeal * YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU *, OLD BLUES 1st XV GIVE IT SOME WELLY FOR OPENING WIN. 1994: Old Blues Rugby (CA) 1995: Old Mission Beach Athletic 1996: Northern Virginia Rugby 1997: San Mateo Rugby . Men DIII. Founded in 1978, the Berkeley All Blues are one of the country's top women's rugby teams. Chaos. join. San Diego State has become better. Old Blues Rugby - 2022 USA CLUB RUGBY NATIONAL 7S CHAMPIONSHIP | AUGUST 13-14, 2022 | LOCATION TBA Old Blues Rugby (CA) Highest Finish: 1st (1994) Last Appearance: 1994 (3rd Appearance) Appearances: 1985, 1992, 1994 News Club is now defunct. Inc., a 501c(3) non-profit organization. Dress Shirt Classic Pink. The Old Blue Rugby Football Club's initial impact forty four years ago in official Eastern Rugby Union league play proved to be an even more auspicious beginning than that of the championship Columbia College RFC (Est. 10 00 10.00. 2022 USA CLUB RUGBY NATIONAL 7S CHAMPIONSHIP | AUGUST 13-14, 2022 | LOCATION TBA . With regular guest coaches from across professional game. Every February, the club sponsors the OMBAC rugby tournament, which is a fund-raiser for the rugby team. A bid was forwarded soon after to the US Olympic Committee for acceptance into the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. "If you don't have a field that is named for you, over time it will be a parking lot or it will be artificial turf or it will be some other thing." Cal rugby goes out of its way to fight against stereotype. Some sports were lightly represented and most athletes were lightly dressed in the heat. After Kemtovic retired from coaching in 1972, Stanford Rugby took a nosedive and has been struggling as a club sport ever since. See how we. One could say that that remains true even today with such a great many players and fans who come from Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, and other rugby playing countries.Living far from home in a frontier city, these British souls attempted to develop some semblance of the game they knew and loved so well. It has also meant that women too could play rugby and their participation in the sport has been phenomenal. After clearing their lines, OWs were then on the back foot. 13 00 13.00. Bud Lyons Leads California Rugby Advisory Board A member of the famed 1971 Cal rugby tour Down Under, a successful businessman, Builder of Berkeley, UC Berkeley Trustee and, since 2011, the Chairman of the California Rugby Advisory Board, Irving Lyons III has always been in the middle of it. An easy way to follow the action is to get a fix on the dominating Stanfill, who is 6 feet 4 inches and 245 pounds, and the dashing Hawley, 6-foot-3 inches and 189 pounds, and stay with them. Mike Kane / The Chronicle **Tom Rooke, University of California Golden Bears rugby team await their coach before taking the field to play St. Mary's at Witting Rugby Field in Berkeley on Saturday, January, 13, 2007. photo taken: 1/13/07 Tweets & replies. 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He was a member of the Old Blues Rugby Club of Berkeley and helped the team to seven national club championships from 1979-87. The Old Blues have recently invested heavily in new playing and social facilities, with a balcony overlooking the pitches completed in 2022. Founded in 1873, Old Blues RFC is an English rugby union club. On November 3, 1877, the freshmen of the University of California at Berkeley challenged the sophomores to a game of "football." MoM awarded to Will Avery for a great game, outstanding defensively and his kicking helped to keep OBs points marching on. This forced the colleges and universities to open up sports programs to women on an equal basis with the men or lose federal funds. 6 in the nation, is the first test of the No. The success of the Old Blues is based on 50 years of rugby tradition at Cal and Stanford. Women WPL & WDII. The USA Rugby Union was not founded until 1975, and up until that time, the biggest event of the rugby season was the annual California North-South game, largely dominated by the strong Northern California teams. 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Walter Thompson; Sr. It is dark when they finally walk out into the Berkeley lights. Then he feigns to kick him while he's down. The USA Rugby Club 7s National Championship is the top annual American rugby sevens competition organized by USA Rugby. "An ice bath makes you feel like a new man," he says. Ben Taylor skilfully peeled off to put OBs first points on the board with Will Avery coolly converting.