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...PAUL ERICKSON, a Harvard graduate student in English, has his way, Harvard may soon join such numerous colleges and universities as Princeton, Dartmouth, Boston University, and Boston College and form a women's rugby team. "It's time women at Harvard have the chance to play rugby," Erickson says, noting that Crimson men have played the sport for decades...
Women play rugby by the same rules as men do--with 15 people to a side--but female rugby is slower and not as rough, according to Erickson. In fact, Erickson thinks that women's rugby, when it is played well, is "the most elegant contact sport...
...Erickson says women's rugby is changing: "It used to be a sport of 'sprains and strains' because women players were not in shape, but now women are getting much more confident about tackling and there are less contact injuries...
...Erickson claims that he received the impetus to form women's rugby when he wore his rugby shirt around campus last year, and women often stopped him and asked him about the sport. "Many of them expressed an interest in playing the sport, but no one took the initiative to start organizing it," he says...
...enough women are interested in playing rugby, Erickson plans to act as advisor/coach to the nascent team, and several A-side men rugby players and women rugby players from the Boston area will aid in the coaching duties until a permanent coach can be found. And then--once the basics have been mastered--the women could start playing against other area teams and in rugby tournaments...