PURNews
PURFC Mens Team: Recruiting video
PURFC Men's Team: Spring Training Trip in Barbados
Senior Rugger Josh Grehan Wins Sachs Scholarship
2009 Princeton University Rugby Newsletter
Ivy League Rugby Championship Series
Ruggers look to build on spring success in 2009
National Rugby Sevens Camp hosted at West Windsor fields
Princeton Ruggers Make ALL-IVY Team
PURFC Men Take 3rd at Ivies
2009 NJST Wrapup
Ruggers build on long tradition in an unlikely place
One of Princeton's oldest clubs flourishes

Princeton Rugby News:


PURFC Mens Team: Recruiting video

Saturday, January 30, 2010
See it here.
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PURFC Men's Team: Spring Training Trip in Barbados

Friday, December 18, 2009
The Princeton men's rugby team will be traveling to Barbados for a training trip during spring break. With 33 ruggers and two coaches going on tour, Princeton will be practicing with the Barbados national team coaches and players.
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Senior Rugger Josh Grehan Wins Sachs Scholarship

Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Josh Grehan '10, starting scrum half and former social chair of the Princeton men's rugby team, has been awarded the Daniel Sachs '60 Scholarship.
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2009 Princeton University Rugby Newsletter

Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Read about the fall season, the Rugby Fields Project, and upcoming events in the new Princeton University Rugby Newsletter
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Ivy League Rugby Championship Series

Saturday, September 19, 2009
For the first time in the history of Ivy League rugby, all eight ivy teams will compete in an established league.
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Ruggers look to build on spring success in 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009
Rugby may not be an officially sanctioned varsity program at Princeton, but don’t try telling that to the 35 members of the men’s squad. Coming off a successful spring campaign, the Tigers are looking to keep up their momentum this fall. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/09/18/23818/
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National Rugby Sevens Camp hosted at West Windsor fields

Thursday, September 03, 2009
National Rugby Sevens Camp hosted at West Windsor fields; Princeton well-represented at National All-Star Rugby Sevens in NYC
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Princeton Ruggers Make ALL-IVY Team

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Four Princeton ruggers made the ALL-IVY team in 2009.
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PURFC Men Take 3rd at Ivies

Sunday, April 26, 2009
This past weekend, the Princeton men's rugby team took third place at the Ivy League Tournament held at Yale and Columbia.
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2009 NJST Wrapup

Saturday, April 18, 2009

At the third annual New Jersey State Tournament, held this past Saturday, Princeton University once again reigned as the top Rugby team in the Garden State and once again brought home the Stu Rickerson Cup.

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Ruggers build on long tradition in an unlikely place

Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Article from the Daily Princetonian

The East Coast is hardly the first place you would expect to find a flourishing, storied rugby program. Rugby is a huge international sport, more often associated with London, Paris, Tokyo or Cape Town than Princeton. And in the US the athletes best suited to its rough-and-tumble style tend to choose American football — or even ice hockey, Wrestling or Basketball — while growing up.

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The Rob Koranda Cup

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Stu Rickerson Cup/New Jersey State Tournament

Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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One of Princeton's oldest clubs flourishes

Thursday, April 03, 2008
Article from Daily Princetonian

In 1869, Princeton invented America’s most popular sport, football, when it allowed “blocking” in a match against Rutgers. What few may know, however, is that the first football game was essentially just another rugby game, with the rules twisted a bit.
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U. Approves Funding for New Rugby Fields

Sunday, February 03, 2008

President Tilghman has given the Friends of Rugby the opportunity to fund two regulation size, lighted fields and a set of stands on the Campus side of Lake Carnegie -- if we can raise $3 Million by September 2008.
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Three Named to Women's U-19 Team

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Three sophomores were included in this year's national U-19 team roster, which will be traveling to Nashville this weekend.
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Liz Inkellis '07 Named All American

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Liz was selected for a second year to the collegiate All-American Team
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Princeton Men are New Jersey State Champions

Saturday, March 31, 2007

After more than 140 years of intercollegiate competition in the sport, New Jersey colleges finally have an undisputed champion, and Princeton University left little doubt about who it is ...

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Championship Cup named for Stuart Rickerson '71

Friday, March 23, 2007

Mr. Stu Rickerson '71 ' ...Whoever wins the single-elimination format Championship will be awarded “The Rickerson Cup,” named for Stuart Rickerson '71, a long-time advocate for the sport in New Jersey. Princeton’s coach, Richard Lopacki, said, “Stu is a natural choice when naming the trophy. He’s a ‘Jersey boy,’ and no one at Princeton has given so much back to the sport for so many years as Stu – so far for 38 years and counting'

Princeton University has been continuously playing rugby since 1931, with Rickerson involved for more than half that time as team captain, coach, newsletter writer and fund-raiser, among other things. Rickerson will make the trophy presentation ...

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Rugby Association chooses Prospect Technologies

Friday, December 22, 2006

Princeton, NJ - The Friends of Princeton University Rugby announced today that it has signed a contract with Prospect Technologies to develop an enhanced e-business communications portal to support the on-going activities of the association and its 1,500+ members. Once operational, this new Web site will be located at princetonrugby.org and will become part of the new image and brand for this organization which supports one of the oldest and most illustrious collegiate rugby programs in the US.

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75th/25th Princeton Rugby Anniversary

Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Report on the 75th/25th Anniversary Dinner of the Princeton University Rugby Club, held at the Princeton Club of New York. Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 25, 2006
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Men's Upcoming Matches
  3/16/2010 / 4 PM & 7 PM @ Barbados
  3/18/2010 / 7 PM @ Barbados
  3/20/2010 / 4 PM & 6 PM @ Barbados
  3/27/2010 / 8 AM @ Four Leaf Fifteens Tournament
  4/3/2010 / 12 PM @ Princeton v. Millersville
  4/10/2010 / 12 PM @ New Jersey State Tournament
  4/17/2010 / 12 PM @ Koranda Cup
  4/24/2010 / 1 PM @ Princeton v. Scranton



Women's Upcoming Matches