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Chicago Area Rugby Football Union 
Sport Rugby union Founded 1974 President Adrian Gannon Men's coach TBA Women's coach TBA Official website WWW.CARFURUGBY.ORG/template.php
The Chicago Area Rugby Football Union (CARFU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in the Chicago metropolitan area. CARFU is part of the Midwest Rugby Football Union (MRFU), which is also the governing body for the Allegheny, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin LAU's. All local and territorial unions are part of USA Rugby.Contents
Men's
Super League
Chicago Griffins
Division I
Chicago Blaze[1], Chicago Lions[2]
Division II
Southside Irish, Lincoln Park[3],
Chicago West Side Condors, Fox Valley Maoris
Division III
Chicago Dragons, Lincoln Park III, Chicago Blaze III, Chicago Riot Rugby, IASCW Shamrocks, Illiana Misfits Rugby, Kellogg GSM , Lake County Gladiators, Northwest Indiana Exiles, Rockford Ravens Northwest Woodsmen[4]
Social clubs
Chicago Blue (Law Enforcement Rugby)[5], Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Women's
Division I
Chicago Women's, North Shore
Division II
Chicago Sirens, County Will Morrigans, Fox Valley Vixens (provisional), Plainfield Storm (provisional)
Collegiate
CARFU features teams from 8 schools: Chicago, DePaul, Illinois-Chicago, Lake Forest, Loyola, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Lewis, and Elmhurst. As of 2008, Notre Dame switched to Division I status, the only CARFU collegiate club competing at that level. Lake Forest only plays in the Spring and does not compete for the CARFU Cup in the Fall. The University of Chicago is one of the oldest clubs in the USA, having been formed in 1933. Lewis University and Elmhurst are the newest members of CARFU, with Elmhurst beginning play in fall 2010. Loyola, Northern Illinois, UIC, and Lake Forest compete at the Division II level. Elmhurst, Lewis, DePaul, and the University of Chicago are Division III.
Men's
2010 CARFU champion, Northern Illinois University, with a 7-1 season.
2006 CARFU Champion, Loyola, lost to Wisconsin–Milwaukee 49-0 in the first round of the Midwest Division II Playoffs, and then subsequently lost to Iowa St. 8-3.
The 2007 CARFU Champion is Northwestern University, winning it for the first time since 1999. They went 5-0 in conference play and 5-1 overall.
The 2008 Carfu Champion was Loyola (4-1), although Northern Illinois University(5-0) beat them earlier in the season. Northern Illinois was disqualified because some of their players were not CIPPed in time for the first game of the season. Loyola went on to the Midwest Rugby Union playoffs. Loyola and Northwestern have won the last six Carfu titles (Loyola-4, Northwestern-2).
2010 CARFU Standings Pos Name Pld W D L F A +/- Pts 1 U. of Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 DePaul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Illinois-Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Loyola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Northern Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 Northwestern 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 Elmhurst 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Updated 2007-07-08 Women's
2007 CARFU Standings Pos Name Pld W D L F A +/- Pts 1 U. of Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 DePaul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Illinois-Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Loyola 2 2 0 0 84 8 0 10 5 Northern Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 Northwestern 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Notre Dame 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Updated 2007-10-02 LAU Competition
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