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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.

2009 Lone Star State Rugby Fall Brawl hosted by the Texas Graduate Rugby Club

The Texas Graduate Rugby Club is proud to host the inaugural Lone Star State Rugby Fall Brawl on November 14-15, 2009 in Austin, Texas. Teams from Wharton, Columbia, Kellogg, and Stanford will be coming to Austin for a great weekend of rugby. Come join us at Burr Field on Saturday and Sunday for the matches.

Please contact Mark Wimmer (markawimmer@gmail.com) with any questions or for more information.

Practices in full swing for the 2009-2010 Season. New Players Still Needed!

The Texas Graduate Rugby Football Club is currently preparing for the upcoming season. Practices are held every Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm at the University of Texas Whitaker Intramural Fields located at 51st and Guadalupe (map).

As always, players of all skill levels are welcome. 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 Rugby Union Division III Semi-Finalists. Last year's largely rookie squad has consistently been showing up at sevens training during the summer, so we are looking forward to a strong season. We are always looking for 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, please join us for practice. After Tuesday practice, ruggers head to Fado to enjoy a few refreshing pints, and after Thursday practice, most players will be at Masters of Happy Hour.

If you are interested in playing, please contact Mark Wimmer(markawimmer@gmail.com). 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 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