Harrisburg RFC

Rugby team
teamname = Harrisburg RFC


fullname = Harrisburg Rugby Football Club
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union = USA Rugby
country

url = www.harrisburgrugby.com/
founded = 1969
ground = Cibort Park, in Bressler
president = Greg Ball
coach = Larry Sweger (Men's team)
Harry Lingle (Women's team)
league = EPRU Division III
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Harrisburg Rugby Football Club is an EPRU Division III rugby union team based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It maintains both men's and women's teams respectively. The teams play home games at Cibort Park, in Bressler, a suburb of Harrisburg. The team won the league championship in 2006.

History

The Harrisburg Rugby Club was founded in the fall of 1969. The team's first match was against a rugby team from Wheeling, West Virginia.cite web| url=http://www.harrisburgrugby.com/about.asp| year=2001| title=About the Harrisburg Rugby Union|first=| last=| publisher=Harrisburg Rugby Union| accessdate=2007-02-08] The club participates in the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union, a Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in eastern and central Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware and parts of New Jersey. The EPRU is part of the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU), which is one of the seven Territorial Area Unions (TAU's) that comprise USA Rugby.

ponsorship

The team's primary sponsor is the Appalachian Brewing Company.

External links

* [http://www.harrisburgrugby.com/ Harrisburg Rugby Football Club]

References