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The Ramblers Rugby Club is the second oldest surviving independent rugby club in the United States. The Ramblers were Missouri Rugby Football Union champions in 1947. Grand Rec. Grand Rec was the first team allowed to keep the Missouri Rugby Football Union trophy for winning the championship three years in a row, in 1950. During its last years ...
Based on a loose affiliation with both University of Missouri-Kansas City and Rockhurst College, the Kansas City Blues Rugby Club was established in 1966. The founding members focused on developing a unique club identity and culture. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Blues elevated their rugby knowledge and skills, becoming successful in the ...
The Mid-America Geographical Union (MAGU) is the Geographical Union (GU) for rugby union teams playing in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and parts of Illinois as a member of USA Rugby. [1] It was originally established in 1975 as the Western Rugby Football Union until becoming
Palmer College Rugby Football Club is an American rugby union team based in Davenport, Iowa. The team plays in the Midwest Rugby Premiership and is the official rugby team of the Palmer College of Chiropractic, founded in 1897 by D.D. Palmer. [1]
The St. Louis Bombers Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based out of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The Bombers are former members of the SuperLeague, the premier league in the United States. In 2023 they came runners up in USA Club Rugby 7s Nationals. They are the 2024 USA Club Rugby D1 Champions.
While in St. Louis he met Harry Langenberg, a founding member of the Princeton Rugby Club, where they eventually came together to form the Ramblers Rugby Club in 1933. The Ramblers are St. Louis’ oldest and the nation’s second oldest active men’s rugby club. The Ramblers green and white uniform was adopted sometime between 1947 and 1950.
Rugby union in the United States revival beyond University of California and Stanford University on West Coast and certain Universities (which became part of the Ivy League in the mid-1950s) accelerated in the 1960s and 1970s, as many colleges started club rugby teams. [15] USA Rugby, the body that governs rugby in the U.S., was founded in 1975.
The University of Missouri Men's Rugby Club plays Division 1-AA college rugby in the Heart of America conference against traditional rivals such as Kansas and Kansas State. [11] Mizzou has been led since 2010 by head coach Don Corwin. Missouri rugby finished the 2011–2012 season ranked 17th. [12]