Many years ago our U of Waterloo rugby team went down to South Bend to play Notre Dame. We were told that NOBODY in the football program was allowed to play rugby because they had worn ‘armor’ all their lives and their were too many head and upper body injuries.
When you play rugby, you have to be very careful where you put your head when tackling people. There is another caution about dirty play in rugby. You are on the field for 80 minutes. That is a long time for your opponents and their mates to get even!
Many years ago our U of Waterloo rugby team went down to South Bend to play Notre Dame. We were told that NOBODY in the football program was allowed to play rugby because they had worn ‘armor’ all their lives and there were too many head and upper body injuries. When Pat Haden went to Oxford to begin a Rhodes scholarship, his classmates learned that he had been a star quarterback for the USC Trojans and invited him to join the rugby team. He declined, saying, "I love my body too much."