My Experience With Rugby by Danny Mueller
My Experience with rugby started the same as many kids in America who play rugby, by watching my dad play. After a long hiatus since the end of college, my dad started playing Rugby again in 2008 for Worcester. Soon after he started playing, I started playing flag rugby for Worcester. Rugby was much smaller when I started playing than it is now. The way rugby worked back then is that we would practice for most of the summer, and then in early August there would be a “jamboree” where we would play the only other youth teams at that time- Mystic River from Malden and The Boston Irish Wolfhounds from Canton, who are now considered the most consistently competitive teams in Massachusetts at an under 18 level . This system lasted from about the time I was 5 until I was 12. Around the time I started playing full on proper tackle Rugby sevens in middle school, the Bay State Games created a tournament for rugby sevens and the Wolfhounds started hosting a younger division in their ‘B...