Pros vs Joes — Stateside rugby competing on an uneven pitch

JACK CLARK sits back in his chair at the University of California, Berkeley, and fields your question about rugby’s place in America with ease.

Former national team coach, now Berkeley coach, rugby lifer, Clark puts the sport in context.

“On this campus rugby is our oldest sport. We’ve been playing the game since 1882, and our rugby team was the first school team to play an outside opponent. We slowly morphed into American football – a young country, looking to play its own sports – so rugby became our second sport, and we still play it, 130 years on.