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Michigan vs Wisconsin
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
About 400 tickets remain

SPORTS

'M' rugby club vs Louisville
Saturday, 10:00 a.m.
Mitchell Field

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The Michigan Daily,

Friday, September 21, 1984

Page 9

Ruggers remain

By JERRY MUTH
It's a pitch to the halfback who cuts
into the open field. He's hit by a swarm
of defenders at the midfield stripe and
coughs up the ball.
Another football game at Michigan
Stadium, right? No, this time Bo
Schembechler is nowhere to be found.
But the team on the field has won the
Big Ten championship for three con-
secutive years and is consistently one of
the top teams in the country. The sport:
rugby. The team: Michigan's rugby
club.
FOR SEVEN of the past eight
seasons Michigan has won the Big Ten
Championship, and the only year it
failed to win, the club elected not to go
to the tournament. As recently as 1982,
the ruggers were ranked third in the
nation. Last year the club finished the
spring and fall seasons with a 19-2
record.
And yet the team prospers in virtual
anonymity.
Michigan's rugby team is one of the
oldest in the nation, according to coach
Ian Chapman, and originated from the
old Ann Arbor Cricket and Lawn
Bowling Club in 1959. However, the
1960's gave rugby a label as a "counter-
culture game," said Chapman, and

even now rugby receives little attention
on campus.
BUT FOR those who become in-
volved, the rugby club offers fitness
and challenging competition. Top
player Dale Tuttle said he plays rugby
because it is one of the most
challenging sports anywhere.
Although Michigan regularly wins
the Big Ten championship with their
'B', or second squad, the ruggers often
Club, Sports
Roundup,
take on teams from large cities like
Louisville and Chicago, which has some
former NFL players competing, accor-
ding to Chapman. In fact, Michigan has
been so dominating in Big Ten play that
its last close league game occurred
against Ohio State in 1978.
Depending on the club's financial
situation, it may travel to the West In-
dies this spring in search of better com-

quiet
petition. Last year Michigan roi
tripped to New York City to play a
Patrick's Day game.
It follows that an outstanding tei
has its share of great players. So it
with the ruggers. Leading the way:
this year's squad are Tuttle, J
Hagen, Paul Leblanc and John H.
tman. All were named as top player!
the midwest region in 1982. Anot
stalwart rugger is Tom Raboine, w
has played for the team since 1965.
HALFBACK HARTMAN, %
graduated last year, has even pla:
for the Eagles, a team made up of
best rugby players in the U.S. In fa
Hartman is the leading scorer in
history of U.S. international rui
competition. Incredibly enough, H
tman weighs only 165 pounds and st
ds five feet nine inches tall.
Most importantly, according
Chapman, a good rugby player must
physically fit. Because practice is h
only two nights a week, the co
stresses individual fitness outside
regularly scheduled practices. Fiti
is not the only reason sophomore R
Friess took up the game last year.
said he joined rugby "to learn a n
game." Now he calls rugby "fun, ft
paced, and a good fitness experience

Tuttle was attracted to the sport
because rugby is a club team - and he
believes it should stay that way. Other
wise he claimed "the spontaneity and
freedom of the sport would be
destroyed."
Coach Chapman, also known as the-
Captain of Vice by the team, says that
although the core of the team is made
up of graduate students, he encourages
younger players to come out.
To get everyone involved, the 80 man
team is divided into five different
squads. Chapman added that anyone is
eligible to play.
The rugby club's next home game is
Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at Mitchell
Field. Michigan's 'A' team (2-0) will
square-off against Louisville's 'A'
squad. After that, Michigan's 'C', 'B','
and 'E' teams play in succession.

success

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Daily rnoto by DAN HABIB
veral members of the Michigan Rugby Club battle for possession of the
ill in practice last night.
even enter Hall tonight

From staff reports
Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch will be one
of seven former Michigan athletes and
coaches inducted into the Michigan
Hall of Honor tonight.
In 1943, Hirsch became the only
Michigan athlete to earn varsity letters
in four sports in one academic year. He
starred in football, basketball,
baseball, and track. He went on to a
distinguished career with the Los
Angeles Rams of the National Football
League, and is currently the athletic
director at the University of Wisconsin.
The other inductees will be Bob
Chappius, an All-American tailback on
the undefeated 1947 football squad; Ar-
chie Hahn, a four-time Big Ten sprint
champion who went on to win four
Olympic gold medals; Don Lund, a
nine-letter winner at Michigan, former
pro baseball player, and currently
associate athletic director at
Padres'
clinch West
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The San Diego
Padres won the first National League
Western Division title in their 16-year
existence last night, beating the San
Francisco Giants 5-4 behind the pit-
ching and three-run homer of pitcher
Tim Lollar while the second-place
Houston Astros were beaten by the Los
Angeles Dodgers 6-2.
The loss ended the Astros' last
mathematical chance 4 of tying the
Padres, who had clinched at least a tie
with their victory earlier.
"This is great, man" catcher Terry
Kennedy said. "I wish this could have
been a night game so we could've
celebrated on the field."

Michigan; Bill Orwig, a football and
basketball star, and assistant football
coach; Doug Roby, an outstanding
baseball and football player; and Dave
Strack, a Wolverine basketball star
who returned to coach Michigan to .
three Big Ten titles.
. The Hall of Honor reception will start
at 5:30 p.m. with dinner and presen-
tations to begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can
be purchased at the athletic depar-
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