Harrisburg RFC
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| Full name | Harrisburg Rugby Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Union | USA Rugby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground(s) | Cibort Park, in Bressler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President | Greg Ball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Larry Sweger (Men's team) Harry Lingle (Women's team) |
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| League | EPRU Division III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harrisburg Rugby Football Club is an EPRU Division III rugby union team based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It maintains both men's and women's teams respectively. The teams play home games at Cibort Park, in Bressler, a suburb of Harrisburg. The team won the league championship in 2006.
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[edit] History
The Harrisburg Rugby Club was founded in the fall of 1969. The team's first match was against a rugby team from Wheeling, West Virginia.[1] The club participates in the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union, a Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in eastern and central Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware and parts of New Jersey. The EPRU is part of the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU), which is one of the seven Territorial Area Unions (TAU's) that comprise USA Rugby.
[edit] Sponsorship
The team's primary sponsor is the Appalachian Brewing Company.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b About the Harrisburg Rugby Union. Harrisburg Rugby Union (2001). Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
