Old Blue (rugby club)
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| Full name | Old Blue Rugby Football Club |
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| Union | USA Rugby |
| Nickname(s) | Snorting Bulls |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Ground(s) | Columbia Soccer Stadium |
| President | Quentin Unsworth |
| Coach(es) | Marty Veale |
| Captain(s) | Dom Wareing |
| League(s) | American Rugby Premiership |
| Official website | |
| www |
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Old Blue Rugby Football Club is a professional rugby union team that plays in the USA Rugby Elite Cup, American Rugby Premiership, and USA Rugby Club 7s. The team plays at Columbia Soccer Stadium within the Baker Athletic Complex in New York City, New York.
Old Blue is over 50 years old, established in the fall of 1963, by Columbia University Alumni to play winning rugby at the highest level possible. Old Blue started by winning its first 18 matches. The 1st team won 78% of games from 1990 to 2000.
The Old Blue RFC is a founding member of the elite USA Rugby Super League. Old Blue appeared in the first two Super League Finals ever as its inaugural Eastern Conference champions in 1997 and 1998, both years in which it also played in the USARFU Men’s Clubs Finals – the only club ever to reach both elite men’s Finals in consecutive years. They have qualified for the Super League playoffs every year since 2002. In 2002, 2005 and 2006, they again reached the League’s Final Four. The Old Blue RFC D-I side is composed largely of its B and C-side players, with its top tier of players preoccupied with its commitment to the USA Rugby Super League.
Old Blue Rugby Football Club’s initial impact forty-five years ago in official ERU league play proved to be an even more auspicious beginning than that of the Columbia College RFC from which it sprang. In the Spring of 1963, on and around the University’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City, the CCRFC held a series of meetings that ultimately precipitated the creation, previously often discussed, of a senior club in the Fall of 1963. It was to be separate but affiliated with the College club; and with the creation of the Old Blue RFC, aspiration finally became reality.
Old Blue Rugby Football Club competes in matches at various levels of interest, development and rugby skills. The club competes in Men’s D-I Club play. It enjoys this opportunity largely because of the enduring support of the Old Blue Rugby Foundation, created and sustained by the devotion, commitment and generosity of the club’s Founders and old boys (“SuperBlues”). Accordingly, the Old Blue RFC and Foundation carry out their mission to advance and set the standard of club rugby in the US .
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