Chicago Area Rugby Football Union

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Chicago Area Rugby Football Union

Founded	1974
Midwest affiliation
President	Adrian Gannon
Men's coach	TBA
Women's coach	TBA
Official website
www.chicagorugby.com/template.php

The Chicago Area Rugby Football Union (CARFU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in the Chicago metropolitan area. CARFU is part of the Midwest Rugby Union, which is also the governing body for the Allegheny, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin LAU's. All local and territorial unions are part of USA Rugby.

1 Men's
2 Women's
- 2.1 Division I
- 2.2 Division II
3 Collegiate
- 3.1 Men's
- 3.2 Women's
4 LAU Competition

[edit] Men's

[edit] Super League

Chicago Griffins, Chicago Lions

[edit] Division I

Southside Irish

[edit] Division II

Chicago WS Condors, Chicago Blaze, Lake County Gladiators, Lincoln Park, Northwest Woodsmen

[edit] Division III

Chicago Dragons, Chicago WS Condors III, Chicago Riot, Fox Valley Maoris, IASCW Shamrocks, Illiana Misfits, Kellogg GSM , Northwest Indiana Exiles, Rockford Ravens

[edit] Women's

[edit] Division I

Chicago Women's, North Shore

[edit] Division II

Chicago Sirens Morrigans

[edit] Collegiate

CARFU features teams from 8 schools: Chicago, DePaul, Illinois-Chicago, Lake Forest, Loyola, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, and Notre Dame. As of 2007, Notre Dame is a reinstated member, while Lake Forest only plays in the Spring and does not compete for the CARFU Cup in the Fall. The University of Chicago is one of the oldest clubs in the USA, having been formed in 1933.

[edit] Men's

2006 CARFU Champion, Loyola, lost to Wisconsin-Milwaukee 49-0 in the first round of the Midwest Division II Playoffs, and then subsequently lost to Iowa St. 8-3 to finish last in Pool 'A'.

The 2007 CARFU Champion is Northwestern University, winning it for the first time since 1999. They went 5-0 in conference play and 5-1 overall.