GRR: Eagle Men
With a face carved out of stone and a strangely winning personality Bill LeClerc was more than the sum of his parts. Before he was coach of West Point’s women’s team, before he was scrum coach for the Eagles, Bill LeClerc was a prop for the United States.
Fred Paoli seemed old school even when he was playing back in the 1980s and 90s.
An accomplished football player at Colorado State, where was one of the captains on the defensive side of the ball, Paoli took up rugby as his football career wound down, and he took to it brilliantly.
Skip Niebauer was one of the top American rugby players even before there was a national team to play for.
A central part of an excellent UCLA team in the early 1970s he was also part of the all University of California system team that toured Australia and New Zealand.
Kort Schubert earned his first cap at the age of 20, and was one of the many players to go from Jesuit in Sacramento to Cal to the Eagles.
He was a talent and wide-ranging openside flanker for the USA and was capped 49 times over a nine-year career.
We strong case could be made for Carlin Isles being the USA Men's 7s Player of the Decade.