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We field a Rugby 7s team during the summer and have made numerous appearances in the National Tournament. We train three times per week during the preseason and two times per week during the regular season. Training sessions are normally held at Randall's Island on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7pm to 9pm. We are an amateur club and abide by all of the rules of the New York Athletic Club. All are encouraged to try out for the team.

Practice times, schedules and contact information is updated regularly on this site. Rugby practice is being held at Randalls Island, field 10, from 7pm to 9pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Take the 4,5, or 6 train to St. On Northwest corner, get M35 bus. Once on Randalls, get off near golf course. It's usually the 2nd stop on Randalls. We are on the big turf field under the lights. It doesn't seem possible that twenty years have gone by since Bill Smith, Jack Delany and I were sitting in a bar discussing the possibility of forming a rugby club within the New York Athletic Club, but it was January of The Club had been approached by another group some fourteen years earlier but the time just was not ripe, and the club turned them down.

This time though, the game had enjoyed a terrific growth, particularly around New York City, and Jack Delaney was very enthusiastic about supporting us and using his influence to gain support from the Board of Governors.

We had spent nearly 20 years playing with rugby clubs who existed through the Christmas raffle. Once given permission to form the club we had to take inventory of the players we had available and make some decisions as to whom, when, and where we were going to play. There were in fact a number of very good players who were members of the New York Athletic Club but unfortunately, they were all committed to playing with other clubs and we were moderately successful at recruiting them in the first season.

We then made the decision to get the program off the ground by forming a Sunday side. After a hurried call for the recruits we held our first practice on a Sunday afternoon in February of in the gym. We had something like seven or eight new recruits, people who were athletic and eager to try something new, but who had never played rugby before.

Together with them and members of the A. Before the first game, George Mayer and I were assigned the task of going up to Travers Island and to survey the playing conditions.

We found a year old tree in the in-goal area, a baseball diamond on one end, and four shot putting rings, which were actually steel rings filled with seven inches of reinforced concrete, on our new playing field. Naturally, they strategically placed right at the half-way and inside the touch lines.

We had to use great imagination to lay out the pitch in the form of a parallelogram so that the tree, which was at least 6 feet in diameter, would fall in the in goal area, rather than on the playing area.

We organized a party to go up there the following Saturday armed with sledge hammers and crow bars to break up the shot putting rings. This was hell of a lot easier said than done and we had only partly completed the job when our first scheduled home match came up.

It was held on a Sunday in April against the Old Blue Thirds and luck would have it there was a heavy down pour all day long. In the morning, I had gone to the nursery and purchased 60 to 70 square feet of sod.

The owner was somewhat incredulous when he was standing in the pouring rain loading it into the station wagon and he asked "what on earth are you doing to do with sod on a day like this? He simply stood there scratching his head as we went off to Travers Island and immediately set about covering the concrete with a carpet of sod, figuring that the Old Blue would be the none wiser.

Sure enough, early in the game I tackled someone who landed on top of the soil who cursed" damn, this pitch feels like concrete". Eventually we completed the job, had the baseball infield sodded in and continued to play on our parallelogram field for the next five years, much to the dismay of the referees, who could never sort out a forward pass.

We became a regular side in the fall of and about two years later when the Metropolitan Rugby Union was formed we were assigned to the third division. We won the third division that year and moved up to second division the following season. We won that also, and competed in the first division until During that time we had two Sweet Sixteen National Tournament appearances and in ,after losing in the finals of the Division 1 National Championship, we were asked to join the Rugby Super League and have been there ever since.

Winged Foot has grown from those early days of scratching for 15 men, to a point where we are now the most successful member of the elite USA Rugby Super League. We field two sides every weekend and an Old Boys side several times each season. The Winged Foot now regularly plays matches all over the US. We have won Rugby Super League National Championships in , and and hold the most national titles of any current member of the Rugby Super League.

For anyone who lives and works in the New York area, there is no finer place to play rugby than with the Winged Foot.

The financial support, the marvelous athletic facilities of the Parent Club, and perhaps most important, the caliber of the individuals who belong to it are second to none. New York had defeated the visitors in their trip up to Boston in September, , but this was an improved Mystic side, featuring good athleticism and determination. Both conversions were missed, however, and the score stood at at the 20 minute mark.

Finally, from a set-piece move, Mystic broke 2 tackles and scored a twenty yard try under the posts and converted to make the score NYAC continued to pressure Mystic, and towards the end of the half, they took advantage of a 5 meter scrum, with fly half Harry Bennet making two impressive side-steps to get into the try zone. Center Chris Mattina converted this time and the home team took a lead into the half.

Mystic River had early momentum in the 2nd half making some gains into NYAC territory and using their big forwards and athletic backs to get continuity and territory. They were able to break the line after a strong carry by their center and an effective carry from the next phase from close quarters.

The converted try made the score The home team responded by getting some good phases and smart kicking to regain a territorial advantage. After being awarded a penalty, harry Bennet alertly kicked across field to left wing Mike Dalton, who beat his man for a good try. The conversion was very close and after some deliberation, the officials denied the points and the score held at The conversion made the score with 15 minutes remaining.

NYAC hit a penalty kick with 10 minutes remaining to open the lead to , setting up some final drama. After the missed conversion, the score stood at to Mystic. The final five minutes saw both teams turn the ball over as the pressure mounted, but a last surge by NYAC brought a line break and a grub kick down the line caused the Mystic full back to kick the ball out only ten yards from the Mystic goal line.

With the game on the line and only a minute remaining, NYAC won the lineup and initiated their driving maul; however, that brief bit of hope was snuffed as Mystic broke through their maul and tied it up to blow the play dead. Awarded the scrum, the visitors won the strike and promptly kicked it out to end the match. A win would have put NYAC in control of their destiny to win the league; however, by only getting two bonus points, any chance of winning the title ended with the final whistle.

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