When the undefeated Cal rugby team takes on Oregon State at noon on Saturday afternoon, much of the team’s success will be based on the play of the man wearing the No. 9 jersey, the scrumhalf. Just like a quarterback in football, the scrumhalf directs a team’s offense. By receiving Read More…
For a team with high standards, perfection is hard to come by. But in Monday night’s 100-0 win over Penn State at Witter Rugby Field, the Bears continued their unbeaten streak with one of their most complete performances of the season. Senior wing Josh Tucker scored five tries for the Read More…
It’s hard to poke holes in a juggernaut like the Cal rugby team. In the first three home varsity games of the year, head coach Jack Clark has been left to dissect win margins of 176, 104 and 105 points, respectively. Results lose their luster in the matches that are Read More…
Despite the Cal rugby team’s undefeated record on the season, one only needed to watch the team practice Tuesday morning to realize that there is a heightened level of focus from the players and coaching staff going into Saturday. The Bears (9-0, 1-0) have beaten their last three opponents by Read More…
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…
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…
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…
