Word: rugbymen
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This year the rugbymen face a restricted schedule in line with those of other sports. Plans for the season include no away from home games at all, but the club, which will be built around a nucleus of three returning men, is slated to face a team of New Zealand sailors in the near future and will follow that contest up with others against similar British units as they happen to be in Boston...
From Paris to the Pyrenees last week Frenchmen were reading fantastic accounts of a troupe of giant "rugbymen américains" who were invading the provinces of France, "dressed in gold helmets like Roman emperors" and leaping at one another "like fighting cocks." More than 25,000 curious Parisians had watched them last fortnight in the Parc des Princes. Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate. "The giants kneeled down and tried to frighten one another with grimaces, then rushed headlong at one another. . . . Legs and arms got so mixed that...
These 22 "rugbymen américains," led by a onetime Notre Dame Horseman named Jim Crowley, had been imported by the Paris-Soir to demonstrate their outlandish game-"a game so brutal that it was banned in the U. S. by the first President Roosevelt, and finally universities were allowed to play it, but only between October and January like a sort of hunting season...
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