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West Point held off Penn State 19-15 Saturday at the Anderson Rugby Complex to start their Rugby East conference season 1-0.
In a game that saw both teams lead at various points in the match, Army did enough.
Defending Keystone Conference champions open their season at West Chester, a the Keystone gets going for another year.
Temple is as Millersville, Shippensburg is at Rutgers, and St. Joseph’s is at Pitt. While WVU are the defending champs, St. Joe’s and Shippensburg both boasted 5-1 records last year, as well.
USA Rugby’s 2013 tax report is not out yet but the audited financial statement is, and it spells out the story of an organization that is growing.
USA Rugby’s total revenue for 2013 was just under $12.2 million, a massive increase over the years previous, where budgets sat around $8 million. USA Rugby’s 2012 budget was $10,240,934.
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In NCAA varsity sports it’s called the Southeastern Conference, or the SEC, but in non-varsity rugby it’s the Southeastern Collegiate Rugby Conference, or SCRC.
But a rivalry by any other name smells as sweet, and among the schools of the SEC, a game between their in-conference foes in any sport matters … a lot.