Difference between revisions of "Little Rock Rugby Club"
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| − | The '''Little Rock Rugby Club''' | + | The '''Little Rock Rugby Club''' (LRRC) is an amateur team playing home games at the Little Rock Rugby Complex across from [[Daisy Bates Elementary School]] near [[Ironton]]. |
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| + | The LRRC was founded in 1974 by [[John Young]], a rugby player and coach at the University of Florida. The Little Rock team was then known as the RiverCity Rugby Club. The club joined with three other Arkansas teams to form the Arkansas Rugby Football Union in the Western Rugby Football Union. The club named changed to Twin City Rugby Football Club when the RiverCity club and the Lyons Club merged. The name changed again to its present formulation in 1987. In 2008 the club joined the Mid South Rugby Union. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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| + | *[http://littlerockrfc.iamrugby.org LRRC homepage] | ||
| + | *[http://sync.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/aug/19/sports-galore/ Sync Weekly - Sports Galore] | ||
[[Category:Sports]] | [[Category:Sports]] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:53, 23 January 2009
The Little Rock Rugby Club (LRRC) is an amateur team playing home games at the Little Rock Rugby Complex across from Daisy Bates Elementary School near Ironton.
The LRRC was founded in 1974 by John Young, a rugby player and coach at the University of Florida. The Little Rock team was then known as the RiverCity Rugby Club. The club joined with three other Arkansas teams to form the Arkansas Rugby Football Union in the Western Rugby Football Union. The club named changed to Twin City Rugby Football Club when the RiverCity club and the Lyons Club merged. The name changed again to its present formulation in 1987. In 2008 the club joined the Mid South Rugby Union.
