No matter the generation, the rugby guys are universally intense and crazy.
"For the love of pain, blood, women and beer" the caption reads. The text goes on to discuss the three halves of the game, that mathematically elusive third half being the social aspects of the sport where the club team would go out and beat up other teams, and each other, and then join them for drinks and song afterward.
This Glomerata falls into the trap in this section of taking a few nice pictures and running them across two pages, hence the fold. Shame that. The rugby team finished 4-2-1 on the season, including a last second win over Alabama.
They played on a field off Old Fraternity Row, surrounded by chainlink and razor sharp shrubbery. It always seems to be raining during their games.
The booster club, the social support group of adoring women, were called Rugger Huggers.
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