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GRR: Eagle Men

12.13.2020 - Alex Goff

Philip Eloff moved to the USA as a young man and immediately started to make the Chicago Lions one of the most feared teams in the Super League.

12.13.2020 - Alex Goff

John O'Neil played rugby at Santa Clara and won two Olympic gold medals playing in the front row.

12.13.2020 - Alex Goff

You can picture it now, the tall, bony frame cutting and baling hay on a farm in the mountains of Colorado, no phone, no email of course, and then he stops ... out in the distance a truck is coming, leaving a rooster tail of dust behind it.

12.13.2020 - Alex Goff

Gary Lambert is repeatedly named as one of the very best Eagles to ever play the game.

A massive man who was both physical and athletic, Lambert was big enough to be a lock, and mobile enough to be an openside flanker. He was a towering presence for White Plains 18 times for the USA team. He scored three tries, including a massive try in the 1987 World Cup to help beat Japan. 

12.12.2020 - Alex Goff

Born in Virginia but trained in Australia, Mike Hercus returned to the United States with an eye toward making the USA team, and not only did he accomplish that fete, he obliterated records.

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