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| EAST METRO BULLDOGS RUGBY CLUB | |||
"Rugby... the only game our mothers let us play!" |
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The East Metro Bulldogs Youth Rugby-Football Club
is composed of students ages 15-19 from Woodbury, Cottage Grove,
Stillwater & South St. Paul, and all parts of the Eastern Metro area!
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau (writing of ruggers, I'm sure)
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| The Origin of the Rugby
Bulldog: An excellent description of the Rugby
Game in the 1800's can be found in Thomas Hughes'
Tom Brown's School
Days. The match begins with a kick-off, "Then
the two sides close, and you can see nothing for minutes but a swaying crowd
of boys, at one point violently agitated. That is where the ball is, and
there are the keen players to be met, and the glory and hard knocks to be
got: you hear the dull thud, thud of the ball, and the shouts of "Off you
side," "Down with him," Put him over," "Bravo!" This is what we call a scrummage,
gentlemen, and the first scrummage in a schoolhouse match is no
joke."
The book goes on with an aside to spectators, "You say you don't see much in it at all, nothing but a struggling mass of boys, and a leather ball, which seems to excite them all to a great fury, as a red rag does a bull... you can't be expected to appreciate the delicate strokes of play, and turns by which a game is lost and won, it takes an old player to do that, but the broad philosophy you can understand if you will." In those days the forwards were known as chargers, player-ups or BULLDOGS. The backs were called dodgers, or three-quarters. And so today the Bulldog legacy continues... another continent, another time, another group of schoolboys pursuing rugby dreams... |
| "Now this is the Law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky; and the Wolf that keeps it may prosper, but the Wolf that breaks it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back... For the Strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the Strength of the Wolf is the Pack." - Rudyard Kipling |
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.... There is another which states that this has already happened." --The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams |
"Whoso would be a man, must be a
non-conformist, and preferably play in the pack." |
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