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Rugby is played throughout universities in the United States of America.

In the United States, college rugby is governed by (in descending order of authority): the International Rugby Board

International Rugby Board

The International Rugby Board is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. It was founded in 1886 as the International Rugby Football Board by the unions of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England refused to join until 1890. The International Rugby Football Board changed its name to the...

, USA Rugby

USA Rugby

USA Rugby is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. It is divided into seven territorial Unions: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Southern California, South, and West...

, territorial unions and local area unions (e.g., NERFU). At present, the NCAA has no authority over college rugby. Often called a club sport, each individual team is administered by either the athletic department or the student club department.
The sport includes a national championship competition (since 1980) as well as other hotly contested trophies such as the World Cup between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of British Columbia (Canada), the Wasatch Cup between BYU and Utah

Utah Utes

The Utah Utes are the athletics teams of the University of Utah. They are named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans. The men's basketball team is known as the "Runnin' Utes"; the women's basketball team, formerly known as the "Lady Utes," now prefers to be referred to as the "Utes"; and the...

, the University Cup between Texas A&M

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

 and Texas, and the Common Wealth Shield between Virginia

Virginia Cavaliers

The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams officially representing the University of Virginia in college sports. The Cavaliers compete in 25 NCAA Division I varsity sports and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference...

 and Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Hokies

The Virginia Tech Hokies are the athletic teams officially representing Virginia Tech in college sports. The Hokies participate in the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference in 19 varsity sports. Virginia Tech's men's sports are football, basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer,...

.

With the addition of Rugby 7s to the 2016 Olympic games, the collegiate ranks expanded into the 7s game. The premiere collegiate 7s competition is the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC). The CRC was first held in Columbus, OH in June 2010 at the Columbus Crew Stadium. That inaugural event was also televised by NBC and NBC Universal. The result was high ratings leading to a second tournament in 2011 to also be covered by NBC. However, the attendance figures were low in Columbus and the venue was moved to Philadelphia to be hosted at PPL Park.

2011 saw the largest change to the collegiate rugby structure since the 1980 inception of the national championship. The College Premier Division (CPD)

College Premier Division

College Premier Division is the highest level of collegiate rugby within the United States of America. It is administered by USA Rugby and modeled after NCAA athletic competitions with the schools broken up into four conferences, the Rugby East, Mid-South, Western, and Pacific...

 was created with the intention of refining topflight collegiate rugby. To do so 31 schools joined together to form a new division of American rugby.


In 2011, USA Rugby continued to urge college rugby programs to adopt new conference structures similar to the conferences used by their other athletic programs. The highest profile example was the formation of the Ivy League Rugby Conference in 2010. This effort has trickled down to Division II, and is expected to impact Division III in 2012. This move signals a shift away from the LAUs and TUs as the governing bodies for regional college rugby.

Organization

American college rugby is governed by the International Rugby Board

International Rugby Board

The International Rugby Board is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. It was founded in 1886 as the International Rugby Football Board by the unions of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England refused to join until 1890. The International Rugby Football Board changed its name to the...

, USA Rugby

USA Rugby

USA Rugby is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. It is divided into seven territorial Unions: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Southern California, South, and West...

, and the respective territorial and local area unions.

Local area unions usually set up "league" matches in the primary season, while the teams set up their own "friendly" matches in the secondary season. In the northeast, midatlantic and midwest, the league season is played in the fall; while in the south, northwest and pacific regions, the spring is the primary season.


USA Rugby maintains strict eligibility guidelines, which are administered at the local level by the local area unions. College players generally have 5 years of rugby eligibility from the time they first enter college, but exceptions can be made for military service, or pregnancy.

On-field disciplinary issues are generally handled by the local area unions, while off-field disciplinary issues are governed by the academic institution and the local area union.

Liability is mitigated by the CIPP insurance program. This program provides liability insurance to all rugby teams and players in exchange for an annual dues payment (currently $30/year). This policy provides the player, the team, its administrators and pitch hosts with liability coverage in the event of any injury. The program is administered by USA Rugby

USA Rugby

USA Rugby is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. It is divided into seven territorial Unions: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Southern California, South, and West...

.

Promotion and Relegation

Division and conference placement is primarily based on a rugby club's success from the previous year. Each Local Area Union (LAU) has its own rules of governance, but in most cases, the team that wins its division or conference has the right to advance to the next highest division or conference. Conversely, the club with the least success that year might be relegated to competing in the next lowest division or conference. Because a move to a different division or conference would have an impact on travel arrangements, some college clubs might resist promotion or relegation for budgetary reasons.

Some winning clubs choose not to exercise this right to advance, instead preferring to stay in the lower club division, either because they are a very small college with a small rugby budget, or because they wish to remain competitive against lesser opponents. For example, Furman University

Furman University

Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...

 (an NCAA Division I institution) is a perennial Division III rugby powerhouse, yet they have consistently declined promotion to Division II. Similarly, Plymouth State University

Plymouth State University

Plymouth State University, formerly Plymouth State College, is a regional comprehensive university located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and part of the University System of New Hampshire....

 declined promotion to D2 despite winning the 2008 D3 NSCRO National championship.

Other clubs are offered promotion, despite not winning their conference, based upon their strength of play. For example, Iowa State

Iowa State University

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...

 Men's Club was allowed to move up to D1 from D2 because they had performed so well in the 2006 Big 12 tournament, losing to fifth ranked Texas A&M

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

 in overtime after winning the competition 2 previously (while being the only D2 team competing). Southern Connecticut State University

Southern Connecticut State University

Southern Connecticut State University is one of four state universities in Connecticut, and is located in the West Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut...

 was moved from D3 to D2 despite losing to Salve Regina University

Salve Regina University

Salve Regina University is a university in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, the university is a Catholic, co-educational, private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of Rhode Island in 1934. In 1947 the university acquired Ochre Court and welcomed its first class...

 21-20 in the 2008 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament

2008 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament

The 2008 NERFU College Men's Division III Rugby Tournament featured 8 teams from four conferences. The top 2 teams in each conference were seeded according to the success of their conference in the previous year....

. See also Promotion and relegation

Promotion and relegation

In many sports leagues around the world, promotion and relegation is a process that takes place at the end of each season. Through it, teams are transferred between divisions based on their performance that season...

.

Women's College Rugby: The NCAA Emerging Sport

The National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 identified women's rugby as an "Emerging Sport" in 2002. An "Emerging Sport", a category that includes sand volleyball and equestrian, must gain championship status (minimum 40 varsity NCAA programs for individual sports and 28 Division III varsity programs for team sports) within 10 years or show steady progress toward that goal to remain on the list. Until then, it is under the auspices of the NCAA and its respective institutions. With only 5 teams, Emerging Sport status in any sport allows for competition to include club teams to satisfy the minimum number of competitions bylaw established by the NCAA.

There are currently 5 varsity women's rugby programs: Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in Hamden, Connecticut, United States at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park...

, Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradually expanded into a comprehensive university with a...

: (Division 1); West Chester University (Division 1); and Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is...

, and Norwich University

Norwich University

Norwich University is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont . The university was founded in 1819 at Norwich, Vermont, as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy. It is the oldest of six Senior Military Colleges, and is recognized by the United States Department of...

 (Division 3).

Men's

YEAR; CHAMPION; RUNNER-UP

• 2010 - Utah 31, runner-up California 26 (a.e.t); Bowl Champion - Bowling Green
• 2011
  2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship
  The 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship was a rugby union sevens tournament. The competition was held from 4-5 June at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The men's tournament featured sixteen teams, whereas the women's tournament featured eight teams....
  
   - Dartmouth 32, runner-up Army
  Army Rugby Football Club
  The Army Rugby Football Club was founded in 1961 and for over 40 years has been a leader in USA Collegiate Rugby. The Army Ruggers are West Point’s most winning team....
  
   10; Bronze Medal Utah; Challenger Champion - LSU
  Louisiana State University rugby
  -History:The LSU Rugby Football Club was born in the early 1970s by members of the LSU community interested in developing a club among the student population. Among the fathers of the club, history records Rob Haswell and Hal Rose as being the initiators of the program on campus...
  
  

Women's

• 2011
  2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship
  The 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship was a rugby union sevens tournament. The competition was held from 4-5 June at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The men's tournament featured sixteen teams, whereas the women's tournament featured eight teams....
  
   - Army
  Army Rugby Football Club
  The Army Rugby Football Club was founded in 1961 and for over 40 years has been a leader in USA Collegiate Rugby. The Army Ruggers are West Point’s most winning team....
  
   14, Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   5

College Premier Division

• 2011 - California 21, BYU 14

Men's

See footnote

National Championship as named by Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

:

YEAR; CHAMPION; RUNNER-UP

• 1966 - Notre Dame
  Notre Dame Rugby Football Club
  The is the official rugby football club at the University of Notre Dame. It is the oldest collegiate rugby club in the Midwest and currently plays in the Collegiate Premier Division, the highest level of college rugby in the US.-Founding and Early Years:...
  
  
• 1967 - California 37, Notre Dame
  Notre Dame Rugby Football Club
  The is the official rugby football club at the University of Notre Dame. It is the oldest collegiate rugby club in the Midwest and currently plays in the Collegiate Premier Division, the highest level of college rugby in the US.-Founding and Early Years:...
  
   3

Official Championship:

YEAR; CHAMPION; RUNNER-UP

• 1980 – California 15, Air Force 9
• 1981 – California 6, Harvard 3 (a.e.t.)
• 1982 – California 15, Life College 14
• 1983 – California 13, Air Force 3
• 1984 – Harvard 12, Colorado 4
• 1985 – California 31, Maryland 6
• 1986 – California 6, Dartmouth 4
• 1987 – San Diego State 10, Air Force 9
• 1988 – California 9, Dartmouth 3
• 1989 – Air Force 25, Penn State 7
• 1990 – Air Force 18, Army 12
• 1991 – California 20, Army 14
• 1992 – California 27, Army 17
• 1993 – California 36, Air Force 6
• 1994 – California 27, Navy 13
• 1995 – California 48, Air Force 16
• 1996 – California 47, Penn State 6

YEAR; CHAMPION; RUNNER-UP

• 1997 – California 41, Penn State 15
• 1998 – California 34 Stanford 15
• 1999 – California 36 Penn State 5
• 2000 – California 62 Wyoming 16
• 2001 – California 86 Penn State 11
• 2002 – California 43 Utah 22
• 2003 – Air Force 45 Harvard 37
• 2004 – California 46 Cal Poly  24
• 2005 – California 44, Utah 7
• 2006 – California 29, BYU 26
• 2007 – California 37, BYU 7
• 2008 – California 59, BYU 7
• 2009 – BYU 25, California 22
• 2010 – California 19, BYU 7
• 2011 – California 21, BYU 14

Women's

See footnote

• 1991 – Air Force, runner-up Boston College
• 1992 – Boston College, runner-up Connecticut
• 1993 – Connecticut, runner-up Air Force
• 1994 – Air Force, runner-up Boston College
• 1995 – Princeton, runner-up Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  
• 1996 – Princeton, runner-up Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  
• 1997 – Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  , runner-up Radcliffe
• 1998 – Radcliffe
  Radcliffe College
  Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
  
  , runner-up Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  
• 1999 – Stanford, runner-up Princeton
• 2000 – Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  , runner-up Princeton
• 2001 – Chico State, runner-up Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  

• 2002 – Air Force, runner-up Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  
• 2003 – Air Force, runner-up Illinois
• 2004 – Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
  , runner-up Princeton
• 2005 – Stanford 53, Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   6
• 2006 – Stanford 15, Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   12
• 2007 – Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   22, Stanford 21
• 2008 – Stanford 15, Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   10
• 2009 – Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   46, Stanford 7
• 2010 – Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   24, Stanford 7
• 2011 – Army 33, Penn State
  Lady Ruggers
  The Lady Ruggers are Penn State University's1 Women's Rugby Football Club sports team, established in 1991. They are a Division I college rugby team who play under USA Rugby2, American rugby's governing body. Although they are an official PSU team the women's rugby program at PSU is not funded as...
  
   29

Men's

• 2000 – Sacramento State, Claremont College 3
• 2001 – Baylor
  Baylor University
  Baylor University is a private, Christian university located in Waco, Texas. Founded in 1845, Baylor is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.-History:...
  
   29, Arkansas State
  Arkansas State University
  Arkansas State University is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and third largest university by enrollment. It is located atop on Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA...
  
   16
• 2002 – Stanford 26, Northern Iowa
  University of Northern Iowa
  The University of Northern Iowa is a college located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. UNI offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college.UNI has...
  
   15
• 2003 – Radford
  Radford University
  Radford University is one of Virginia's eight doctoral-degree granting public universities. Originally founded in 1910, Radford offers comprehensive curricula for undergraduates in more than 100 fields, and graduate programs including the M.F.A., M.B.A...
  
   32, Northern Colorado
  University of Northern Colorado
  -Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
  
   22
• 2004 – Salisbury
  Salisbury University
  Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland.According to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges index, "In guidebooks and surveys by U.S...
  
   43, Arkansas State 24
• 2005 – Northern Colorado
  University of Northern Colorado
  -Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
  
   24, Humboldt State
  Humboldt State University
  Humboldt State University is the northernmost campus of the California State University system, located in Arcata within Humboldt County, California, USA. The main campus, nestled at the edge of a coast redwood forest, is situated on Preston hill overlooking Arcata and with commanding views of...
  
   22
• 2006 – Coast Guard
  United States Coast Guard Academy
  Founded in 1876, the United States Coast Guard Academy is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard. Located in New London, Connecticut, it is the smallest of the five federal service academies...
  
   17, Northern Colorado
  University of Northern Colorado
  -Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
  
   12
• 2007 – Middlebury
  Middlebury College Rugby Club
  Middlebury College Rugby Club is the division I rugby union team of Middlebury College, located in Middlebury, Vermont. Also known as The MCRC, the club competes in the New England Rugby Football Union.- Officers :...
  
   38, Arkansas State 22
• 2008 – Radford 25, Utah Valley State 14
• 2009 – Middlebury
  Middlebury College Rugby Club
  Middlebury College Rugby Club is the division I rugby union team of Middlebury College, located in Middlebury, Vermont. Also known as The MCRC, the club competes in the New England Rugby Football Union.- Officers :...
  
   27, Wisconsin 11
• 2010 – Claremont 25, Temple 19
• 2011 – UW-Whitewater 7, Middlebury
  Middlebury College Rugby Club
  Middlebury College Rugby Club is the division I rugby union team of Middlebury College, located in Middlebury, Vermont. Also known as The MCRC, the club competes in the New England Rugby Football Union.- Officers :...
  
   3

Women's

• 2000 - Plymouth State
  Plymouth State University
  Plymouth State University, formerly Plymouth State College, is a regional comprehensive university located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and part of the University System of New Hampshire....
  
  , runner-up East Stroudsburg
• 2001 - Northern Iowa, runner-up Nevada-Reno
• 2002 - Northern Iowa, runner-up Minnesota
• 2003 - Dayton, runner-up Northern Iowa
• 2004 - Temple, runner-up Providence
• 2005 - Providence, runner-up Temple
• 2006 - UC Santa Cruz
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
  
   22, Plymouth State
  Plymouth State University
  Plymouth State University, formerly Plymouth State College, is a regional comprehensive university located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and part of the University System of New Hampshire....
  
   10
• 2007 - Iowa State
  Iowa State University
  Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...
  
   26, UC Santa Cruz 19
• 2008 - Shippensburg 47, Minnesota-Duluth
  University of Minnesota Duluth
  The University of Minnesota Duluth is a regional branch of the University of Minnesota system located in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. As Duluth's public research university, UMD offers 13 bachelor's degrees in 74 majors, graduate programs in 24 different fields, a two-year program at the School of...
  
   0
• 2009 - Shippensburg 29, Stonehill
  Stonehill College
  Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...
  
   5
• 2010 - Washington State 37, Temple 0
• 2011 - Radcliffe 22, Notre Dame 10

Division III - Governed by the National Small College Rugby Organization (NSCRO)

The National Small College Rugby Organization was created to give a competitive outlet to small colleges which would not otherwise have an opportunity to compete on a national stage. Each year, the NSCRO hosts rugby tournaments for Division III Men's and Women's college teams, and for Division IV Women's college teams.

Men's

• 2002 - Western Carolina University
  Western Carolina University
  Western Carolina University is a coeducational public university located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States. The university is a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina system....
  
  , runner-up Stonehill College
  Stonehill College
  Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...
  
  
• 2003 - Furman University
  Furman University
  Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...
  
  , runner-up Stonehill College
  Stonehill College
  Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...
  
  
• 2004 - Furman University
  Furman University
  Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...
  
  , runner-up Central Connecticut State University
  Central Connecticut State University
  Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut, United States.The school was moved to its present campus in 1922...
  
  
• 2005 - Furman University
  Furman University
  Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...
  
  , runner-up Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  
• 2006 - Bentley University, runner-up The Citadel
• 2007 - Bentley University
  Bentley College
  Bentley University is a private co-educational university in Waltham, Massachusetts, west of Boston. Founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in 1968...
  
   11, runner-up Furman University
  Furman University
  Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...
  
   10
• 2008 - Plymouth State University
  Plymouth State University
  Plymouth State University, formerly Plymouth State College, is a regional comprehensive university located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and part of the University System of New Hampshire....
  
   22, Furman
  Furman University
  Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...
  
   15
• 2009
  2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament
  The 2009 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament is a tournament which involved 103 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NSCRO Division III college rugby as a culmination of the 2008–09 rugby season...
  
   - Coastal Carolina 36, SUNY Oswego 15
• 2010 - Penn State Berks 11, Keene State
  Keene State College
  Keene State College is a liberal arts college in Keene, New Hampshire. It is a member of the University System of New Hampshire and of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges....
  
   6
• 2011 - Longwood University 36, Occidental College
  Occidental College
  Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...
  
   27

Women's

2002-3 - Champion: College of New Jersey

Runner Up: University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

2003-4 - Champion: Fordham University

Fordham University

Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

Runner Up: Susquehanna University

Susquehanna University

Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, north of the state capital, Harrisburg.-Academics:...

2004-5 - Champion: Castleton State College

Castleton State College

Castleton State College is a public liberal arts college located in Castleton in the U.S. state of Vermont. Castleton has an enrollment of 2000 students and offers more than 30 undergraduate programs as well as master’s degrees in education...

Runner Up: Susquehanna University

Susquehanna University

Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, north of the state capital, Harrisburg.-Academics:...

2005-6 - Champion: Babson University

Runner Up: Ursinus College

Ursinus College

Ursinus College is a liberal arts college in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.-History:1867Members of the German Reformed Church begin plans to establish a college where "young men could be liberally educated under the benign influence of Christianity." These founders were hoping to...

2006-7 (Last year the event was held in the Spring) - Champion: Stonehill College

Stonehill College

Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...

Runner Up: Pennsylvania University

Pennsylvania University

Pennsylvania University may refer to one of two unrelated universities:* University of Pennsylvania, a private university* Pennsylvania State University, a state-related university...

2007 (Fall) - Champion: Stonehill College

Stonehill College

Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...

Runner Up: Marist College

Marist College

Marist College is a private liberal arts college on the east bank of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York. The site was established in 1905 by Marist Brothers, and the college was chartered in 1929...

2008 - Champion: Bryant University

Bryant University

Bryant University is a private university located in Smithfield, Rhode Island, U.S., that grants the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and master's degrees in business, taxation and accounting. Until August 2004, it was known as Bryant College...

 

Runner-Up: Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women...

2009 - Champion: MIT 

Runner-Up: East Stroudsburg University

2010 - Champion: Bentley University 

Runner-Up: Drexel University

Drexel University

Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...

Division IV - Governed by National Small College Rugby Organization

Women's Only

2006 - Champion: University of Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...

Runner Up: Ursinus College

Ursinus College

Ursinus College is a liberal arts college in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.-History:1867Members of the German Reformed Church begin plans to establish a college where "young men could be liberally educated under the benign influence of Christianity." These founders were hoping to...

2007 - Champion: Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University, commonly abbreviated as RWU, is a private, coeducational American liberal arts university located on in Bristol, Rhode Island, above Mt. Hope Bay. Founded in 1956, it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams...

Runner Up: Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women...

2008 - Champion: Holy Cross College

Holy Cross College

Holy Cross College may refer to:*Holy Cross College , Bangladesh*Holy Cross College , in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States*Holy Cross College , Western Province, Sri Lanka*Holy Cross College...

Runner Up: Albright College

Albright College

Albright College is a private, co-ed, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1856 and is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.-Overview:...

2009 - Champion: Drexel University

Drexel University

Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...

 

Runner-Up: Wentworth Institute of Technology

Wentworth Institute of Technology

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is an independent, co-educational, technical design and engineering college located in Boston, Massachusetts...

2010 - Champion: Lock Haven University 

Runner-Up: Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

External links

• National Collegiate Club Rugby Club Championships (Men's club winners)
• Men's and Women's Division 1 Club and Men's Division 2 national collegiate club rankings
• "Women's National Collegiate Club Champions: D I" (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• "Women's National Collegiate Club Champions: D II" (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• News and Articles on current Collegiate Club Competitions
• "Champions 2000; From Sydney to the Bronx, the Winners". New York Times, 12-31-2000 (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• "The Year in Review; Winners of 1991 Individual and Team Championships". New York Times, 12-29-1991 (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• "The Year in Review -- 1993; The Year's Champions". New York Times, 12-16-1993 (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• EPRU Champions (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• "From Atlanta To Wembley, Winners All". New York Times, 12-29-1996 (retrieved Sept 6, 2009)
• The Rugby Rugby Guide (History of Rugby, Beginner's Rugby Guide, Coaching Rugby, Equipment Review, Rugby Fitness, How To Guide, Rugby Quotes, Rugby Songs and Anthems)
• RugbyMag.com. Rugby Magazine. Retrieved 2010-02-06.