Friday, November 3, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Rugby: gentleman's play with gentlemanly rules
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
"It's sort of like playing football without padding. When the ball is passed back to you, you run until you're hit, and you'll get hit just about every time.
"If you can't pass before you go down then you're really in trouble. You lay on the ball and pray while 29 guys try to kick it out from under you."
That's how Layne Creason, Leawood junior, describes rugby, a European game that is quickly gaining popularity in this country as a minor sport in colleges and universities.
Gentleman's Game
Creason, a two-year veteran of KU's rugby squad, said, "Rugby is supposed to be a gentleman's game—and those players who do do not remember their manners get the bomb play. That's like double-teaming or blitzing in football.
All 15 of our men forget about
covering the other players and move in on the guy with the ball. He always acts like a gentleman after that."
Rugby was introduced at KU about five years ago. Since then it has been slowly increasing in popularity. This year the rugby squad, coached by Ken Leonard, will play in both a fall and spring season.
During the fall, competition is limited to the Kansas City Club rugby team and other small organizations. In the spring, however, many small college teams hold games despite the fact that there is at present no real system of rating rugby teams or of forming playing divisions. The team is planning to take a trip to London during spring break to match talents with British players.
Played on Grid Field
thrown between them by an official. After that it is a free-for-all as the ball is kicked and carried across the field.
Rugby is played on a regular football field. In the "serum down" two teams of 15 men each line up opposite each other and charge a ball which has been
There are no real plays in rugby, as the ball is in constant motion. All passes must be backwards—the is no such thing as a forward pass in rugby and blocking is illegal. Touchdowns are made in the end zone for three points,and two extra points may be made by kicking the ball through the goal posts.
"It's really a pretty rough game," said Creason. "There are two one-half hour periods.
There are no time-outs and no replacements. If somebody breaks a leg the team just plays on without him while he crawls off the field.
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"After each, game the whole team retreats to the Bierstube for a little party. Right now we're in debt $200 because of our little parties. But that's just part of the game," Creason said.
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