On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. With regular guest coaches from across professional game. Money for rugby programs was cut off and so were all the other things scholarship footballers received such as medical care, trainers, food tables, etc. When you meet players they will wear out your hand shaking it before, during and after a conversation. Tony Delacruz, who works in the UC Student Store, was returning from his break sometime after 4pm when he witnessed the man engulfed in flames and rushed to the scene. Men DII & DIII. Shouting. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Then Coach Clark starts pacing on the sidelines. Mike Kane / The Chronicle, Tom Rooke, right, freshman, from Bloomfield Hills, MI, plays flanker versus UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 DIVISION. THE LONG, BLUE LINE / One hundred and twenty-five years of the purest of all college sports, rugby at Cal, RUGBYMAG_461_MBK.JPG Colin Hawley, a sophemore at UC Berkeley from Trowbridge, CA, makes a toss during a match against St. Mary's at Witter Rugby Field on campus in Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 13, 2007. photo taken: 1/13/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Colin Hawley MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGxx_4335_MBK.JPG Louis Stanfill racks a clean from the hang position at the athletic facility in Berkeley, CA, on Tuesday, January, 23, 2007. photo taken: 1/23/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Louis Stanfill MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3692_MBK.JPG Lou Stanfill, right, shows some post-game affection to James Keady, in yellow, a senior from Santa Clara, at a fraternity on campus after Cal Rugby shut out UC Davis in Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3808_MBK.JPG Loren Hawley, rugby legend and Cal Alumni, congratulates his son Colin, a sophomore from Trowbridge, CA, immediately following Cal's shut out versus UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Colin Hawley MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3419_MBK.JPG Lucas Watson, freshman, Walnut Creek, CA, is taken down by UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, during Saturday's match January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Lucas Watson MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, RUGBYMAGXX_3787_MBK.JPG Louis Stanfill stretches for control during a line-in as Cal makes its way to a shut out versus UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Mike Kane / The Chronicle ** Louis Stanfill MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT, The Cal rugby squad stands for the national anthem before playing UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 A good example of this would be the l974 Northern California RU All-Stars. Upon regrouping, OBs put the pressure on and camped out in OWs 22 for a sustained period of time, forcing OW to concede several penalties. They later defeated Leamington of New Zealand and lost to Auckland (N.Z.). OMBACs success has been a long time coming, said Bob Watkins, a former OMBAC player and coach who has been associated with the club since 1967. He is a general assignment reporter with a focus on writing feature-length obituaries. There is no styling, no chirping. He passes the test, which is to recite the score of the game. President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to outlaw it by presidential fiat unless the national rules committee made changes that satisfied the Eastern schools. New Zealand won 43 - 6 before an enthusiastic crowd of 2,500. After a few years of informal women's invitationals, a formal women's competition was added to the event in 2011. You can hear the crack, like one of Stanfill's tackles. Everyone writes off the Boston Celtics every year, but they always come back. We are seeking to fill the following: Head Coach for our Women's Premier League (WPL) team Head Coach for our Division II team Assistant coaching staff for both WPL and Division II sides More information about these positions can be found here. Men DIII. Blues Sliders. The culmination of that work occurred April 17, when OMBAC beat the defending national champion, Old Blues of Berkeley, coming back from a 16-3 deficit to score 25 unanswered points for a 28-16 victory. They defeated Romania 37 - 0. In a primitive locker room in Memorial Stadium, Cal waits to host St. Mary's in the primitive sport of rugby. Colors, name, and logo were selected by Dan Hickey, Manager of the NCRFU All-Star team and later, NCRFU & PCRFU President. Previously held Sales & Marketing, community start-up, and Vice President roles before becoming Managing Partner of Continuing Life in 2013. "Headphones off," he says in passing. OMBAC, the Pacific Coast champion, will face Denver Saturday, and Milwaukee will play Washington. Loren Hawley, 64, has had radical surgery for throat cancer and can express himself only by writing notes on a clipboard. Founded in 1978, the Berkeley All Blues are one of the country's top women's rugby teams. Varsity Rugby, Harlequins London, USA Rugby League, Olympic Club Rugby, Hong Kong Rugby Football Club, Philippine Rugby Football Union President, President American Chamber Philippines, YPO Philippines Past President, YPO Board Member SE Asia, Board of Trustees Intl School Manila, Board Member AIB Capital, Board Member Fairmont Raffles Philippines, Board Member AIB Capital, Cal BA 1988, 1989; London School of Economics MSc. After clearing their lines, OWs were then on the back foot. The Gaels score first and seem to be playing with more urgency. Game/Practice Field Location : Tom Bates Regional Sport Complex. Leo Gadsby went in underneath the posts (conversion from Will Avery) to take it to 22-10. An easy way to follow the action is to get a fix on the dominating Stanfill, who is 6 feet 4 inches and 245 pounds, and the dashing Hawley, 6-foot-3 inches and 189 pounds, and stay with them. At that time, the British Rugby evangelists of San Francisco converted Cal to Rugby-style football. Please enter your page detail here. He started as a feature writer in the People section, which was anchored by Herb Caen's column, and has written about people ever since. Full Zip pro Active Jacket. Location Old Blues Rugby Berkeley, California All-Time Tournament Statistics All-Time Record: 10-3 Old Blues RFC | New Coaching Team 2020 Thu 29 Oct 2020 21:04 OLD BLUES 1st XV GIVE IT SOME WELLY FOR OPENING WIN Sun 11 Aug 2019 11:37 Saturday 22nd September Old Blues 29 - 15 Old Wellingtonians The start to the 2018/19 season saw the 1st XV and 2nd XV running out at Fortress Motspur; the weather being a familiar view 1 2 Match Reports Particular mention should also be given to the number of debutants who had their first league game with the 1s: Max Greaves, Josh Heath, George Ratcliffe, Adam Wilkinson, Euan Copeland, Joe Jenkins, great shift from all the lads who have put a lot of effort in to pre-season over the last few weeks. This brought to a close what has been called "one of the strangest and yet most spectacular eras in the history of Pacific Coast Football. The Old Blue Rugby Football Club's initial impact forty four years ago in official Eastern Rugby Union league play proved to be an even more auspicious beginning than that of the championship Columbia College RFC (Est. Eighty minutes later, the shocked onlookers were numbed by an 8 - 0 victory for the United States. In all, an eight-hour day to play an 80-minute game. The rugby dressing room sits right on the fault line and is where they stick the visiting team for football games, to get them rattled. Ran on: 02-22-2007 We welcome new players looking to join one of the premier rugby clubs in the The addition of these players to Northern California Club and all-star competitions has made an enormous impact. Blues at Berkeley Social Clubs Dance Clubs Jazz & Blues Downtown Berkeley 6. As of the 20/21 season the 1st XV competes in RFU Surrey 2 and the 2nd XV competes in Surrey Combination 1 North. The Old Blues -- the Cal alumni club that was once so cool it was hired to endorse BMW in a TV commercial -- is defunct. Women WPL & WDII. For up to date information as to practice times and locations, as well as game times and locations, please call the Old Blues Hotline at (510) 601-9986. We have territorial competitions for both men and women. Both sides play home matches in Motspur Park, South West London. The Old Blues, an outgrowth of the University of Californias highly successful program, has won the national club championship seven times in the nine years it has been held. First played in November 1985, the tournament moved to the summer in 1986 and has been a fixture of the summer rugby season in the United States ever since. Welcome to the website of the Old Blue Rugby Football Club. And, Rugby is the only high school sport in the nation to have a national high school champion. "If you're not absolutely f -- miserable today, then we are not where we need to be as a team," Clark says, breaking his own silence. Still woozy, he gets up and walks among the Cal parents, looking for his dad. OBs were under pressure at times with some interesting clearance kicks (Davey) not quite finding their mark. The game jerseys look more like what Jack Nicholson would wear in a romantic comedy. Welcome to the Christ's Hospital Old Blues' Association (CHOBA) Your relationship with Christ's Hospital continues long after you finish studying with us and CHOBA is here to help you keep in touch with the ever growing network of Old Blues across the globe. The stunned French suggested that the US team tour France, which they did; winning three out of the four matches they played. Saturday 22nd September Steve was an important member of the very successful Cal Teams back in the early 1970s. The event is streamed online annually, typically on YouTube or The Rugby Channel. "It keeps the inflammation down, calms the muscles and makes you a lot less sore.". The British, hosting the American team, gave them little hope. 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Four regional champions are in the national playoffs. We set goals throughout the year. "If you don't have a field that is named for you, over time it will be a parking lot or it will be artificial turf or it will be some other thing." OMBAC should be given credit for going out and building a strong team, Hickey said. Founded in 1873, Old Blues RFC is an English rugby union club. The first match was played in November 1873 against the Christ's Hospital 1st XV, on a field in Palmer's Green. CAL_RUGBY_0190_MBK.jpg Like burning man light, with jazz and blues " more Outdoor seating 7. MoM awarded to Will Avery for a great game, outstanding defensively and his kicking helped to keep OBs points marching on. Corporate sponsorships can support your marketing and community engagement needs. No rugby player ever leaves school early for the pros, and some stay late. The sport has since grown to 400 college teams in three divisions, but most are loosely organized recreation sports. For up to date information as to practice times and locations, as well as game times and locations, please call the Old Blues Hotline at (510) 601-9986. He played with the likes of Herm Edwards and Karl Crumpacker in the defensive backfield. The Keystone Berkeley, which hosted performances between 1972 and 1984 at 2119 University Avenue, was a nightclub where experimentation was the order of the day, and musicians and music lovers alike could come together to experience music for music's sake.. Most items in Rugby Team Stores ship in 1-2 weeks. In another season or two they will run out of fence. It also meant that many colleges and universities, in order to comply with Title Nine, began to eliminate minor men's sports programs, which had varsity status. In 1892 some 19,000 fans crowded into the old Kezar Stadium in San Francisco to watch the first Big Game between Stanford (managed by Herbert Hoover) and California. If a new player needs a job or a place to live, he can plug into the clubs existing network. Theyve never been a real threat until this year, when theyve loaded up with new players. Tom Rooke, right, freshman, from Bloomfield Hills, MI, flanks on a scrum versus UC Davis at Berkeley, CA, on Saturday, January, 27, 2007. photo taken: 1/27/07 Asked if he was worried when his protege cracked heads, Stanfill jokes, "Well, he always was fragile.". They don't call it the junior varsity, because that connotes a lower status, and players move back and forth. Tweets & replies. Getting out of the football stadium and into its own designated rugby stadium 10 years ago was the best thing to happen to Cal rugby in 125 years. Final score OB 29-15 OW. He is so steeped in the sport's English roots that he exhorts his side by yelling, "C'mon lads.". Request materials at least 2 business days in advance. Games were played in the winter mud in the deserted stadium, and nobody seemed to notice. There were rugby teams at maybe 50 schools, heavy on Ivy Leaguers and beer guts. Since there was no clear-cut winner in this melee, the football was sliced up and shared by the two classes. During the l970s, 80s, and early 90s, the Northern California Rugby Union teams won nearly all of the national club and collegiate championships sponsored by the USA Rugby Union. The 12th Witter has just entered the program. 1961) sides from which it sprang. The All Blues were founded in 1978, and have since supported female athletes and promoted women's rugby at all levels across the Bay Area. The winners will play Sunday to decide the U.S. national club champion. Eagles Brian Vizzard, from Michigan State, and Kevin Higgins, from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, came to OMBAC last season. One critic suggested that while the Americans "did not have any finesse, their aggressive tackling and superb punting were amazing." CEO, James Properties; Land and Cattle, LLC; Rugby Partners Inc. 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Member Old Blues Rugby Club, 1979 National Club Champions; Arizona Big Schools High School Football Coach of the Year; Sunnyslope High School Achievement Above All, Teacher of the Year Chaparral High School; on staff of two Arizona State High School Football State Championship Teams He and other members who have been with the club from its early days in the late 1960s--including OMBACs current coach, Bing Dawson, and club president, Pat Boyle--decided around 1980 to work to build OMBAC into a team of national prominence, capable of attracting top talent. A Cal football recruit would never set foot in here. Stanfill can stand 10. As many as 26,000 flocked to Rugby's Big Games between Cal and Stanford. And with over 1,400 student groups and organizations currently registered at Cal, there's plenty of options to choose from. At halftime Hawley has his head wound checked. Until the formation of the US Rugby Union in l976, the team that most frequently won the tough Monterey Tournament (the unofficial National Championship) was the mythical national champion. Berkeley All Blues Rugby is a fiscally sponsored project of P.A.S.S. Hella Fitzgerald 25 Musicians Jazz & Blues Performing Arts $$Oakland "Hella Fitzgerald delivered. "It's a big deal, that's for sure," Stanfill says of the 125th season. They don't even wear rugby shirts. Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. But I think its too early to talk about dynasty, Hickey said. The Old Blues, an outgrowth of the University of California's highly successful program, has won the national club championship seven times in the nine years it has been held. Getting to Albany is just one step of many, Mike Saunders, OMBACs captain, said. Then he feigns to kick him while he's down. *Played on SoCal Rep. Side but played Collegiate Rugby in Northern California.easy. The USA Rugby Union was not founded until 1975, and up until that time, the biggest event of the rugby season was the annual California North-South game, largely dominated by the strong Northern California teams. From dominance of the storied Old Blues through a consistent Berkeley All Blues Women's Rugby Team to Wisconsin Women's Rugby's first title, #USARugby looks back at the USA Club Rugby National. Berkeley, CA berkeleyallblues.com Joined October 2010. Loren Toews (Cal-Berkeley and Pittsburgh Steelers), Mickey Ording (University of Oregon & L.A. Rams draftee), Jack Schultz (Stanford *MVP in Rose Bowl), Carl Ekern (Cal-Berleley and "C" of the Los Angeles Rams), John Wilbur (Stanford and Washington Redskins). Inc., a 501c(3) non-profit organization. On Dec. 2, l882, the first Cal Rugby team to play an outside opponent lined up a group of Rugby-playing ex-Brits calling themselves the Phoenix Rugby Club of San Francisco. Chairman, CEO & Founder, CBRE Philippines, Inc. Rugby Player 1987-88, Football Player 1986-87, Oxford Univ. In the late nineties and early years of the new millennium, Rugby in Northern California has seen a vast increase in the number of Polynesian rugby players (Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji). Men DIII. This can be HTML or text. But the primary reason for the clubs success, according to those involved, is its beneficial relationship with the parent Old Mission Beach Athletic Club. So Stanfill took on Colin Hawley as a project, having him stay overnight when he tired of the drive. The Northern California RU has been one of the most successful of all the Local Area Unions in many respects. O'Brien, a former star Cal rugby player, national team member and longtime coach of the Old Blues rugby club, has led the Gaels to numerous national championship tournaments since he began in 2001. of Product Management, Mirapoint; WW Product Marketing Manager, Hewett-Packard, Cal B, Political Economy 1990, Northwestern MBA 1996. This kind of disorganized football foolishness continued for four years. But that is still not the end of it. The actual ad you are buying is the one pictured above. To edit click the first menuicon on the small HTML menu that appears when you click on this text. Ned Haig, a playing member of the Melrose, Scotland rugby club, devised the concept sevens tournament to make money for his club. Powered By. The Old Blues have set the standard of excellence for U.S. rugby, one that OMBAC has worked hard to emulate. On game day, everything is regimented and a moment before noon, the room goes silent. Old Blues Rugby has virtually a year-round schedule. The USA Rugby Club 7s National Championship is the top annual American rugby sevens competition organized by USA Rugby. This ended Rugby as an Olympic event. The success of the team stems from the fact that it has a structure behind it, Watkins said. "Cal rugby is a one-of-a-kind experience," says Hawley. Ben Taylor skilfully peeled off to put OBs first points on the board with Will Avery coolly converting. Several San Diego State alumni are on the teams roster of 60-plus, and six former Aztecs are on the 25-man traveling squad that will play in Albany. 1-ranked Bears. Likes. The final score is 90-0, but the day is not over. The Old Mission Beach Athletic Club, best known for its annual Over-the-Line tournament, is a social/athletic club with more than 300 members. The San Francisco Olympic Club and the British Commonwealth Association sponsored the game. The Berkeley All Blues are a nationally-ranked women's club rugby team. That infrastructure is a support system that gives us the ability to do a lot of things., Said Boyle: Its a situation thats very different than most amateur athletics.. A rugby match in front of 5,000 fans squeezed onto risers or bunched along the end lines is the way it was meant to be. To reach the rugby field from here, the quickest route is down through the stands on the west side of Memorial Stadium, across the field, back up the east side and across Stadium Rimway Road. Before the end of the first half against the St. Mary's reserves, it is 48-0. The cathedral -- which includes an old men's room from the football stadium converted to a classy field house -- is named for its major benefactor, the Dean Witter brokerage family. It isn't a perfect pitch, like Stanford's, where the Final Four will be played in May. Hawley, 19, already has his varsity letter with four years ahead of him. The Old Blues -- the Cal alumni club that was once so cool it was hired to endorse BMW in a TV commercial -- is defunct. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Cal rugby number 8 Louis Stanfill spins out of a scrum during a tough match against the University of British Columbia from Vancouver Canada in Berkeley, CA, on Wednesday, February, 21, 2007. It is dusk when they walk back across Stadium Rimway, down the steps and into their dank and dim locker room. Then in 1980, the first National Collegiate Championships was played in Iowa and Cal won it, and the three after it. Men DIII. Because it is governed not by the NCAA, but by USA Rugby, they are eligible to play five years. Founded in November 1869, 15 months before the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the story of Oxford Rugby is nearly as old as that of the sport of rugby itself. The San Diego State program has served as a feeder program to OMBAC. After Kemtovic retired from coaching in 1972, Stanford Rugby took a nosedive and has been struggling as a club sport ever since. England - Premiership. Meet Our Teams SUPPORT US Donations "A ball could get caught up in that oak tree. . Gloucester All Blues Rugby. Other teams have accused the club of recruiting and stealing players. One famous writer of the day wrote, "Rugby in California ended in a blaze of glory." For the past few years, OMBAC has worked in a methodical and organized fashion to strengthen its team, turning it into one of the countrys top rugby organizations. Watkins also serves as chairman of the U.S.A. Rugby Football Union and is a former president of the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union. And was very close friends with many of his team mates such as Chuck Hextrum, Steve Rivera, John Dixon and Jack Clark. Football has become a television show before a live studio audience. Founded in 1963. We dont go to teams and recruit players. Dan Hickey, the current president of the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union who lives in the Bay Area, agrees.