University of Texas Graduate Rugby Football Club Home Page

Please Visit Our Sponsors:

Thanks to Fado Irish Pub, Casa Chapala, and The Lodge for sponsoring Grad Rugby.

For more information on our sponsors, please click on the "Sponsors" link above.

New Players Always Welcome

The Texas Graduate Rugby Football Club welcomes players of all levels. Even though we primarily recruit from the graduate schools, anybody is eligible to join. In 2008, we won the Thunderbird business school tournament in Phoenix, AZ, and in 2006-07, we were the Central Division III Champions and Texas Division III Semi-Finalists. Last year's largely rookie squad has consistently been showing up at sevens training, so we are looking forward to a strong year. However, we are always recruiting new players to help keep the momentum going.

If you want to play the greatest team game ever invented and have a good time while doing it, then please join us. Practices are at 7pm every Tuesday and Thursday at the IM Fields at Guadalupe and 51st. After Tuesday practice, ruggers head to Fado to enjoy $3 pints, and after Thursday practice, most players will be at Masters of Happy Hour.

If you are interested in playing, please contact Nick Whitelonis at nickwhitelonis@mail.utexas.edu. For reasons as to why you should play rugby, please click on the "About" and "FAQs" links above.

We Like It When You Watch

Not only is rugby one of the greatest games to play, it is also one of the best games to watch. Imagine putting a rabid mongoose, two cobras, and a weasel inside a mesh bag. You may not be sure what is going to happen, but whatever does, you know it is going to be frikkin' awesome.

We also have beer.

For information on game times and locations, as well as upcoming events, please click on the "Schedule" link above.

Thanks Sponsors!!

Grad Rugby would just like to thank Fado, Casa Chapala, and The Lodge for helping us put on great post-match drink-ups. At Fado, the 20oz. pints never stop and Casa Chapala always provides plenty of burrito plates. Afterwards, we head to Sixth Street and The Lodge to finish out the night in style.

Truer Words Were Never Spoken

"In our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players, with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own." - Victor Cahn