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The USA Falcons, formerly the USA Selects is the second national rugby team for the United States. The USA Falcons is a developmental team, usually fielding younger players looking to break into the U.S. national team, and sometimes including amateur domestic U.S. national team players who need more high-level matches.
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In September 2016, with at least five amateur rugby union clubs across the United States discussing a possible professional league, Dean Howes, [9] who had previously been an executive with Major League Soccer's Real Salt Lake and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, stepped in as senior strategic advisor for Rugby Utah in an attempt to provide a pathway for expanding ...
The New England Free Jacks are an American professional rugby union team based in Quincy, Massachusetts, that competes in Major League Rugby (MLR). They were announced in September 2018 and began to compete professionally in October 2018. [1]
The formation of the USA Rugby League was announced on January 12, 2011. Seven teams that had previously competed in the American National Rugby League, the United States' established rugby league organization and recognized governing body for the sport, announced they were breaking with the AMNRL to form a new league.
The USA A side lost 21–83 to England during their 2001 North America tour. [2] The USA A side lost 8–24 to Scotland in 2002 in Portland, Oregon in front of 1,100 fans. [ 3 ] The USA Selects participated in the Americas Rugby Championship , a tournament originally featuring the "A" sides for Argentina, Canada, the United States, and Uruguay.
Introduced in 2006 with two developmental sides each from Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga. Since 2011, the three Pacific nations have been represented by their A sides, and Junior Japan (that country's A side) joined them as a core team in 2013. At various times, Super Rugby academy teams and Argentine developmental side Pampas XV have also featured.
Played for the United States at the first ever Rugby World Cup in 1987 and scored the first try for the United States in RWC history. Captained the U.S. 7s team to the Plate Championship in 1986. Bob Watkins: 2015: Founding Director of the United States of America Rugby Football Union in 1975 and was a three-term president of USA Rugby.