Knoxville Rugby Football Club

Knoxville Over Queen City 50-5

November 9, 2007

No match report available

Santa Claus 7s 2007

October 26, 2007

Summary:

Five teams competed for the Golden Santa this year: Washington D.C., Johnson City, UT, Knox1, Knox2. The weather was unfortunately nice and sunny this year resulting in some Santa 7s faithfuls to leave early in disgust (Boo was not one of those people).

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U23s Over Tennessee Tech 39-12

October 20, 2007

Knoxville’s U23 side, The Colts, showed some really positive play against Tennessee Tech in Cookville today. With the help of a very grizzled and corpulent tight five, the young guys in the back line and loose forwards put on a show of entertaining rugby.

It was obvious when we arrived that we were outsized, especially at the inside backs. Those guys were huge. They didn’t look like any fun to either tackle or be tackled by, so we planned accordingly. Knoxville’s forwards and backs complimented each other really well for the whole day. We kept the pressure on at every opportunity as we knew we’d have a tough time attacking a larger side if we allowed them to organize.

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NEW! U23 Match with Tech 10.20

October 12, 2007

KRFC’s U23 side has a match scheduled at Tennessee Tech on October 20th. All U23 players are encouraged to make the road trip. Kickoff will be at 1:00 pm CST. We’ll meet Cracker Barrel on Campbell Station Road at 10:00 am to drive over.

Directions…

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U23s and Old Boys Take Down Sewanee

October 9, 2007

KRFC’s U23 team, the Colts, had a convincing win over a depleted Sewanee team on Saturday with the help of a few Old Boys. Match report to come…

Nashville 33 Knoxville 14

October 5, 2007

For the last time this fall season, the Possum faithful saddled up for another away game. This time we travelled across the plateau to play against the Nashville Outlaws. As 10 of us stood around and watched the 30+ men in black go through their warmups, we knew it was going to be another one of “those days”. Eventually the rest of our team showed up, and 18 guys put on our new possum jerseys ready to play ( Thank you Donna and Vince at Sports Locker ).
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Old Boys Weekend - Knoxville vs Sewanee 10/6/07

October 4, 2007

Inviting all Possums young and old out to Possum Park this Saturday for a day of champagne rugby and fun in the sun. We kick-off against Sewanee around 11′ish and we’ll keep playing till the playings done!!! Hope to see you out there ….

Knoxville vs. Nashville 9/29

September 28, 2007

Several people have requested directions to the pitch for tomorrow’s game against Nashville … here they are … http://www.nashvillerugby.com/directions.html#Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Practice Pitch

From I-440 exit north onto West End. Take a right at Blakemore/31st. Take a left at Natchez Trace (first light) and the field is on your right.

From Downtown exit off of I-40 south onto Broadway. Merge right onto West End. Take a left onto Natchez Trace (across from Centennial Park) and the field is on your left just after the track.

The Possum faithful are gathering at Cracker Barrel, Campbell Stn. Rd. Exit, and heading west @ 0830.

“I am a Possum, this is my creed … “

Dayton 31 Knoxville 24

September 21, 2007

Yet again the rugby gods have chosen to punish the faithful by robbing us of several players before another big away-game. This time we traveled up to sunny Dayton, Ohio, to take on the flying pigs. My worst fears were realized when we only had 13 players (plus little’ole me) show up at the pitch … a far cry from the 24 or so we’ve had at practice. In a show of true spartan spirit, the boys from Knoxville chose the pipe wrench (playing with 14) over the belt (playing with 14 + help from Dayton) and took to the field. Understandably, chaos ensued. Dayton jumped off to a quick lead due to mistakes and confusion on our part, and we were never able to overtake them. At one point late in the match we had clawed our way back to a two point deficit, despite the loss of Rob W. our fullback. But a late try to Dayton sealed the deal and we lost the match 24 - 31.

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Knoxille 26 Triad 17

September 14, 2007

It was a sunny Saturday as the possum faithful travelled over to Greensboro to take on the dogs of Triad. I guess the combination of distance and UT home game didn’t help our numbers any, and we only travelled with fifteen players … plus coach/wing/medic/waterboy/kicking tee carrier/linesman. And we were fortunate enough to have the assistance of old boy Buck Rogers to tape us in action … for better or worse. The squad that travelled included some new faces to the club but everyone played to the best of their ability/fitness level at this point in the season and I was well pleased.
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