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There was a rainstorm the day before Radcliffe rugby’s first round play-off game early last week against Boston College. The intramural fields behind Harvard stadium were so sloppy that even in cleats, the players kept slipping through the muck. These are terrible conditions to play in, Uber—who broke her fibula in an early season game—comments from the sidelines, but it makes the game cinematic...
Uber acknowledges the stereotype that a lot of female rugby players are lesbians. “Our team kind of makes a joke of it,” she says. “You have to accept that if you play rugby you play because you love the sport...
It’s raining, and the players—who aren’t wearing any protective gear except mouth guards—appear to converge on the large, egg-shaped ball and collapse into a heap.The play resumes, and the women continue to shout colorful jargon at each other. “During the game rugby has so much more communication than any other sport because it’s so complicated,” Captain Anna M. Ruman ’10 says. “You have to constantly, constantly be talking...
...ruck” occurs when players from both teams fight for the ball after a tackle. The ball can travel down the field, they explain, by being kicked or carried, but not thrown forward. If the ball goes out of bounds, it is returned to play in a “line-out.” During a line-out both teams form pods around a player and guide her into the air, helping her try to catch the ball. For a moment, this near lift resembles a cheerleading move...
...JUST PLAY FOR RECREATION