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Mark Scharrenberg is one of the best USA backs of the 1990s.
The first-ever rugby All American from Chico State, Scharrenberg started rugby because he just found it to be more fun than football, another sport he excelled at. Soon he was on the USA radar and continued to excel for the Golden Gate club after graduation.
Nick Fedorenko was an accomplished football player at Notre Dame and an elite rugby player throughout the 1970s.
Joe Taufete'e is somewhat unique in American rugby.
Clarence Culpepper played rugby for Philadelphia and (for longer) Roanoke during his career through the 1970s and 1980s.
Known as a mobile and tenacious openside flanker who covered a lot of ground, Culpepper was also a superb leader and captain.
Carroll played for Australia in 1908 and 1912, a loss to Wales, a win in the Olympic final, in which he scored two tries, and a defeat of the USA in 1912.
It was that tour of North America that changed his life, as the skilled flyhalf decided to stay in the United States. A year later he was on the USA team that lost to New Zealand.