On Saturday afternoon, Arizona State traveled to Witter Rugby Field to play Cal in the first official game of the newly founded PAC Rugby Conference. By the time they left, there was no doubt which team was the class of the conference. Whereas last year’s match between these teams wasn’t Read More…
The Cal rugby team entered last year’s matchup at Arizona State riding a 61-game winning streak. The last time these two had met, in 2005, Cal came away with a 121-point win. But on this day, the Sun Devils came to play, staying within 10 points of the lead into Read More…
After a 34-month hiatus away from its home field, the Cal rugby team welcomed its fans back to Strawberry Canyon on Saturday with a 174-0 thrashing of Stanford, the largest victory in program history. After the match, head coach Jack Clark summarized his team’s performance with the understatement of the Read More…
If you browse through the Cal rugby record books, you’ll find a couple of games each season in which the Bears take down their opponent by a lopsided score. In the last five years, Cal has put up 100 points in 10 different matches, including a 152-0 win over Humboldt Read More…
For the last 17 years, the Scrum Axe has remained in the Doc Hudson Memorial Fieldhouse adjacent to Witter Rugby Field, a perpetual reminder of Cal’s reign as king of Bay Area rugby. Only twice in the last decade of matchups has Stanford put up more than seven points on Read More…
Despite outscoring his four Californian opponents 165-7 at Los Angeles, Cal rugby head coach Jack Clark summed up last weekend as “pretty good” with improvements needed across the board. The results and numbers at the All-Cal Tournament were insignificant to Clark. As the opening chapter of the 15s season this Read More…
For about eight hours last Friday, the Cal rugby team played like the title favorites as advertised before the USA Rugby College 7s Championships. In the 9 a.m. contest against Middlebury, the Bears thwarted the Blue, 29-0. Four hours later, Cal defeated North Carolina State, 26-12. Heading into its 5 Read More…
When the Cal rugby team was invited to participate in the USA Rugby College 7s Championships, head coach Jack Clark was primarily concerned with whether the tournament overlapped with the players’ academic calendars. Now that classes end this week, Clark gave his team the green light to travel to College Read More…
If you watched Stanford play Arizona two weeks ago, you might have noticed that the camera crew was deliberately avoiding any shots of the stadium. The reason was simple: No one showed up to the game. After two seasons with BCS bowl berths and back-to-back Heisman runners up, the No. Read More…
Even those tree-sitters have to be pretty impressed. In just four short years, the Cal football team went from using some of the worst facilities in all of college football to arguably some of the best. Throughout his first 10 years as head coach, Jeff Tedford often expressed the difficulty of trying to get recruits excited about his program while taking them on tours of locker rooms and training facilities that wouldn’t even pass for halfway decent high school gym. Read More…
