Wednesday, August 22, 1979
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Ruggers battle for respect, fans
University Daily Kansan
By GREG SACKUVICH
Sports Writer
By GREG SACKUVICH
Sports Writer
Corning of a season in which it finished second in the tournament of Big Eight football, but improving not only its caliber of play, but also the image of the sport, Paul Dierick,
Last year, the club had a 26- record, and with the loss of only two or three players, the team should be better this year. Dirkrich returned as coach will be Joe Kielywa
The club plants to have about 30 players, though a single game can take up each scheduled game, the second side will play a game against the opponent's second side or a team of comparable ex-
Rugby-a cross between football and soccer-is played continuously by teams comprised of 15 players.
THERE IS NO tryout for the KU team, Diedrich said, and any interested person may work out with the squad. Practices will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., playing fields at 23rd and Iowa Streets, or at 19th st. west Street of Olive Hall.
The team's schedule will be split into a fall and spring slate. The first game on the fall schedule will be here September 1, against the Old Yellers.
The Rugby Club is comprised mostly of Kidstaff along with some from the University, who get into the summer with practices, which included an exhibition game during halftime of the team's annual tryout.
football game in Arrowhead Stadium, Aug.
9. Diedrich said.
FIVE OF THE RETURNING players were chosen last year to the Heart of America All-Star team. The five are Randy Rentick, Rick Forster, Foreer, Roger Walter, and Diedrich.
The Heart of America is one of six subunions in the Western Union of organized American rugby. The other unions are the Pacific, the Eastern and the Midwestern.
The Western Union is fairly new to American rugby, Diedrich said, and is important in the establishment of rugby as a respectable sport in the United States.
Due to publicity about serious injuries and deaths from rugby games in foreign countries, the sport has a reputation as a beater played by rowdy beer drinkers, he said.
"AMERICAN RUGBY is a fellowship. we like to know our opponents and socialize with them after the game. Rugby is a sport that we want and we want people to realize that," he said.
Diedrich said American rugby is peculiar, because it is played by amateurs for enjoyment.
"We take our wives and kids to the games and don't want to fight our oneness."
The rules of rugby are unknown to many people, Diedrich said, and he hopes the sport will become more familiar to the public.
Rugby is a descendant of soccer and a forerunner of American football.
Rugby has a continuity of play similar to soccer, except that the ball is carried. The objective of the game, as in football, is to
run the ball across the opponent's goal line
This is called a try and is worth four points.
AFTER A TRY, a conversion kick similar to the point-after-touchdown in football is attempted. This is called a goal and is worth two points.
A team also may score three points by drop-kicking the ball between the goalpost uprights rather than attempting a try. This is similar to football's field goal.
A rugby game is divided into 40-minute halves and only two substitutions are allowed. If a player is ejected, his team plays shorthanded for the rest of the game.
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Last spring, the KU Brugy Club toured Scotland and Ireland. The club plans to tour France and Wales in the Spring of 1981, Diedrich said.
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