What is UTD rugby?
Coaches volunteering their time.
Sharing their experience to teach the laws and traditions
of a world sport more than 150 years old.
Rec Sports providing a space to play the games:
a presence on campus.
Team spirit and school spirit.
Fans "on the hill” at home games, parents in folding chairs,
A soccer dad on an adjacent field commenting - "I don’t know what game
they’re playing over there but it sure looks fun."
Players and parents pitching in before home games,
Putting up field markers and boundary ropes,
Carrying out the goalposts,
Taking them in afterwards.
Whose turn is it to wash the jerseys?
The game draws blood – sometimes,
UTD plays with intensity – always.
This team never quits.
Eighty minutes of action,
Controlled chaos?
Ten minutes at half-time for players to catch their breath.
A ball shaped like a small melon.
Keep it moving,
No forward passes.
Ruck, maul, repeat,
Crouch, bind, set,
Wheeling the scrum,
Loose-head, tight-head,
Touchline, tryline,
Line-out, knock-on,
Tight-five, drop-kick,
Try and conversion.
What does it all mean?
Fifteen positions – two props, hooker, two locks, two flankers, number 8,
scrumhalf, flyhalf, two wings, two centers, fullback.
Want to play?
All sizes welcome - it’s an equal opportunity game.
No experience necessary – just commitment.
You’ll learn the jargon. See you at practice.
Respecting opponents on the field,
And socializing with them off the field by
hoisting a “bevvy” to a good game.
A game for hooligans played by gentlemen,
And women.
A unique camaraderie,
A state of mind,
A spirit.
UTD rugby is all of the above.
Coaches volunteering their time.
Sharing their experience to teach the laws and traditions
of a world sport more than 150 years old.
Rec Sports providing a space to play the games:
a presence on campus.
Team spirit and school spirit.
Fans "on the hill” at home games, parents in folding chairs,
A soccer dad on an adjacent field commenting - "I don’t know what game
they’re playing over there but it sure looks fun."
Players and parents pitching in before home games,
Putting up field markers and boundary ropes,
Carrying out the goalposts,
Taking them in afterwards.
Whose turn is it to wash the jerseys?
The game draws blood – sometimes,
UTD plays with intensity – always.
This team never quits.
Eighty minutes of action,
Controlled chaos?
Ten minutes at half-time for players to catch their breath.
A ball shaped like a small melon.
Keep it moving,
No forward passes.
Ruck, maul, repeat,
Crouch, bind, set,
Wheeling the scrum,
Loose-head, tight-head,
Touchline, tryline,
Line-out, knock-on,
Tight-five, drop-kick,
Try and conversion.
What does it all mean?
Fifteen positions – two props, hooker, two locks, two flankers, number 8,
scrumhalf, flyhalf, two wings, two centers, fullback.
Want to play?
All sizes welcome - it’s an equal opportunity game.
No experience necessary – just commitment.
You’ll learn the jargon. See you at practice.
Respecting opponents on the field,
And socializing with them off the field by
hoisting a “bevvy” to a good game.
A game for hooligans played by gentlemen,
And women.
A unique camaraderie,
A state of mind,
A spirit.
UTD rugby is all of the above.