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University Daily Kansan, August 18, 1983
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Rugby tour ends at clubhouse
By JOHN UNREIN Sports Writer
Dressed in sport coats and ties, 35 KU Rugby Football Club players piled into a plush New Zealand rugby clubhouse. The owner, summer's overseas tour of New Zealand
The Jayhawks had just beaten Auckland University for KU's first win in New Zealand. Now it was time for Auckland to buy the beer.
According to rugby tradition, whoever is host of the match treats the opponent to free beer at the home clubhouse. In New Zealand, this meant that the KU rugby club got to drink beer in some very nice places.
"They have really nice clubhouses over there," said Pete Knudsen, Shawne junior. "The great thing in this league is that all the rugby teams have one."
KU is the only club in the Heart of America Union, a regional organization of amateur rugby clubs, to have its own' rugby clubhouse. The KU rugby club houses exhibitions in the upstairs room of Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St.
JOHNNYS, which is owned and operated by rugby club members Rick
Renfro and Doug Hassig, allows free use of the upstairs space by the rugby club.
The clubhouse features a conference/trophy room, bar, kitchen, video-game room, shower and library, video-studio, take turns with housekeeping duties.
Inside the trophy room are awards, newspaper clippings and trophies that the rugby club has accumulated during its 19-year history.
Highlighting the club's most notable achievements are the two Heart of America Union championships won by the club side, one of the rugby club's teams, in 1982 and 1983. Each club is divided into different sides, with each side, or team, having a different skill level.
"KU PLAYS three different sides of rugby," said Paul Diedrich, staff adviser for the KU rugby club. "There is a club side, the No. 1 side, which includes a mixture of KU students and alumni; a collegiate side of strictly undergrads, and a B side, for the teams who only come out for the exercise."
Diedrich said that the KU rugby club consisted of about 75 percent students and 25 percent alumni. Clubs are not only undergraduate membership, only undergraduate membership.
Both students and alumni traveled with the rugby club this summer to New Zealand, at a cost of $1,900 a person, Diedrich said, on the club's fourth international tour in seven years.
Previous overseas tours by the KU rugby club included trips to Great Britain and France.
One of the biggest reasons KU goes on tour, said coach Bill Mills, is to find competition.
"ONE OF THE PROBLEMS at KU is that we don't get to play much top rugby here," Mills said.
The KU rugby club may not have a great deal of competition in the Heart of America Union, which comprises 19 clubs from Kansas and Missouri. But in New Zealand, the KU club met some of the best teams.
"New Zealand is one of the hotbeds of rugby." Driedrich said a week before the KU rugby club left on its June 29 to July 17 tour. "We're going to be playing against sides who have been playing rugby since they were 7 years old."
"I was surprised how they young they were," said Archie Byers, Prarie Village junior and captain of this year's tour. "They were also surprised how good they were."
"My game probably matured 100 percent."
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