[Fiji Hill]

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."

[BillM]

My point is that rugby does not result in these types of injuries. There is some consideration of self preservation involved.