Philadelphia Rugby Club was founded in 1961 in Philadelphia. The Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club started in 1967 in Whitemarsh Township Montgomery County Pennsylvania.
PW will hosting the 7th sort-a annual rugby banquet and hall of fame induction. It is also the 10th anniversary of the 1999 PW 7s National Championship and the 20th anniversary of the club's appearance in the national championship game.
Yes, we did get a full side to play our first match back against PCOM. Yes, the newly now resurgent Philly Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club did take an early lead on a Steve Frey penalty kick right in front of the posts.
PW took it's 2-2 season record into Harrisburg last Saturday to play the 3-1 Blue Rams. It was our last match and league game of the season. We lost a couple of key players to injury and travel commitments, so we are were concerned about the turnout. The forecast was sunny and bright for the boys from PWRFC.
"Contrary to Stephen Siano's 'memory' of playing his first rugby match way back in 1975, when mastadons still roamed the earth, I can attest that his first game came in a much later rugby epoch -- at least four months into 1976! Recent conclusive researches, by Darwin and Huxley and Hall, have uncovered original copies of The Whitemarsh Lineout, the rosetta stone of Philadelphi
In Freddie's stead (back injury), Bobby Carroll is a perfect choice for captain. He's a quite calm cool collected guy with few choice poignant words. His PaPa taught him well. EXCEPT, ... Bobby pulls us together before kickoff and states, "Philly on 3." Sometimes I don't think people get me about this Philly v. Whitemarsh thing.
I played my first game of rugby by just showing up at the field with my brothers John and Jimbo. We won 4-0 ... no - trys were four points not three as many of you now want to believe about me. It was a long time ago, though ... Clark has the binder of Whitemarsh Lineouts. Clark, you wrote them, yes, but they are Al Little's - he loaned them to me ... don't lose them!
Philadelphia Whitemarsh RFC (8-0) completed their undefeated season with an exclamation point in a 78-12 win over Wilkes Barre RFC (4-4). With the win, PW was crowned EPRU Division III champions and earned a #1 seeding for the MARFU playoffs in the spring. Nine players accounted for 12 tries for PW and flanker Kevin Denehy won Man of the Match honors for PW.
Marcus Respes, Drexel's Head Rugby Coach and Philadelphia Whitemarsh Alumni and Chris Ryan combined instructional talents this evening to provide a great night of rugby training. The boys of PWRFC took a run with the some very talented student athletes from Drexel University.
