GRR: Varsity Cup
The figure of Anthony Salaber has always been a little bit of a weird one.
At 6-5, even in high school he looked like a lock, striding in that long stride of his, looking more like an elk eating up ground with a loping stride than a jackrabbit scampering, zig-zaggedly through the underbrush.
BERKELEY (Cal Rugby Release) – Jack Clark, a football and rugby player for the Golden Bears from 1976-78 who has won 26 combined national collegiate championships since becoming head rugby coach for the Golden Bears in 1984, will be inducted into the University of California Athletic Hall of Fame this autumn.
This will be the final 15s rankings of the 2015-16 season. With the championship weekend done and dusted, this is it.
And I have to say, this was hard - very hard. It would have been far, far easier for us if BYU had won the Varsity Cup, because BYU had beaten every team the Cougars had faced. Now, every top team has a sort of fatal flaw.
Cal came back from a 29-19 deficit with three converted tries in the final ten minutes to beat BYU 40-29 in the Varsity Cup final, shocking most rugby observers and the crowd at South Field in Provo, Utah.
Here's the latest from the Men's College Finals, with DIA, DIAA, and Varsity Cup champions being decided today.
UC Davis defeated a capable Notre Dame College side in a wet, contention DIAA final 17-13 Saturday.