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Rugby Bugaboo

One thing that Tuesday's Cavalier Daily
forgot to mention about last weekend's
Rugby match was the large number of
grasshoppers, beetles, and assorted other
insects who attended, much to the displeasure
of the more traditional Rugby enthusiasts.
The insects are the natural inhabitants of
Carr's Hill Field, the site to which the
Intramural Department decreed the ruggers
must move this year.

Interestingly enough, none of the members
of the Intramural Department, in particular
Mr. Slaughter, attended Sunday's match. We
feel that if they had, their forced exposure to
the original inhabitants of the field might have
proved to be an effective argument for
permitting the Rugby Club to return to
tradition-laden Nameless Field.

Mr. Slaughter's argument is that the effects
of cleated shoes on Nameless Field might
render it less efficacious for the extremely
important uses to which it is now being put
(intramurals and physical ed. classes). Such
defoliation did not seem to perturb Mr.
Slaughter last year when the lacrosse squad
used the field for practice. We hope that no
jealousy exists between the Athletic
Establishment here and the highly successful,
but non-Establishment, Rugby Club. RBC