Princeton Rugby
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| Full name | Princeton University Rugby Football Club |
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| Union | USA Rugby |
| Nickname(s) | Tigers |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Location | Princeton, New Jersey |
| Ground(s) | West Windsor Fields |
| Director of Rugby | Richard Lopacki |
| League(s) | Ivy League |
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The Princeton University Rugby Football Club (or PURFC) competes in the Ivy League in Division I-AA of USA Rugby's intercollegiate competition.
The men's team was first established in 1876 when Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia met at the Massasoit House in Massachusetts and formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, which used the rugby code. This makes it one of the oldest rugby clubs in North America.
After an interruption (the rules laid out by the Intercollegiate Football Association began to deviate dramatically from Union rules after 1893), the club was reorganized in 1931 under the leadership of Monte Barak, Hugh Sloan H.F. Langenberg, and coach John Boardman Whitton. It has been playing continuously ever since. Over 5,000 people attended the inaugural Harvard - Princeton game in 1931.
The club competes in the Ivy League. The PURFC won the Ivy League Championship in 2004, 1979, 1973, 1971, and 1969. The team also qualified for the Division I-AA Sweet 16 in 2014. The men's coach and Director of Rugby at Princeton is Richard Lopacki.
Princeton University Women's Rugby Football Club (PUWRFC), is the women's rugby union club of Princeton. PUWRFC was established in 1979 by Catherine Chute. The new team aspired to compete in the young world of U.S. women's rugby, which was established only eight years earlier by the creation of four women's teams in 1972. Since then, the sport has grown quickly across America and PUWRFC has continually found itself at the top levels of Division I competition. Currently, the Princeton women compete in Division I of the Ivy League. PUWRFC is coached by Christopher Ryan and Peter Kelly.
PUWRFC won back-to-back national championships in 1995 and 1996. Princeton women advanced to the Final Four in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005. Throughout the team's history, PUWRFC has often won the MARFU Championship, the Ivy League Tournament, and has secured several bids to the Sweet Sixteen. More than 35 Princeton women have been named All-Americans, many of whom have received honors for multiple years. In 2011 and 2012, the women placed 3rd in the USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships.
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