Harvard rugby
Though Harvard NCAA athletic teams compete in the Ivy League, since 2009 Harvard Rugby team has competed in the Ivy Rugby Conference. Predating the formation of Ivy Rugby Conference (where each of the eight men's rugby teams played each other over the course of a semester), each spring, from 1969 through 2004, Brown University rugby team hosted the Ivy League Rugby Tournament Championship at their campus. Harvard has won the Ivy League Tournament Championships in 2007, 2003 and 1994 and were National Champions in 1984, as well as National Championship runner-up to Cal-Berkeley in 1981 and to Air Force in 2003. In 2009, the men joined a newly established Ivy Rugby Conference that kicked off as a separate collegiate conference that operated as its own union (replacing the need to be part of a 'local area union' or 'territorial union' within the national rugby union organization, USA Rugby, such that Harvard no longer was required to be part of New England Rugby Union except for the use of referees certified by a group related to the New England Rugby Union. The Harvard Men's Team, along with the Princeton and Yale Rugby teams, began the tradition of U.S. college students going on Spring Break to the Caribbean. Recently, the Harvard Rugby Football Club released a film, "Just a Club". Though rugby style "carrying game" with use of hands permitted (as opposed to "kicking games" where hands were not permitted) between Freshmen and Sophomores were played in 1858 the rugby team was not founded until December 6, 1872. Harvard team is the oldest Rugby team in the United States. On October 23, 1874, Harvard University was hosted by Montreal’s McGill University in the first recorded game using rugby union code rules, which McGill won (Harvard having defeated McGill earlier that year using different rugby football rules). Prior to 2013, the Harvard Radcliffe Rugby Football Club, founded in 1982, won two national championships (1998, 2011) as a club team. The Harvard Women’s Rugby team, which in 2013 became part of NCAA Emerging Sports for Women and Harvard University's 42nd varsity sport, plays other rugby union NCAA teams. Notable honors include: 2019 National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) National Champions, Ivy League Champions (2018, 2013), Ivy League Sevens Champions (2016, 2017, 2019) The Harvard Business School RFC is a rugby union team based at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Although affiliated with Harvard University, only graduate students compete on this team. Harvard and Radcliffe play their home matches on Roberto A. Mignone Field, located at Harvard's Soldiers Field Park.
Teams ; Men's Team
The Harvard Rugby Football Club is a collegiate rugby team at Harvard College. Harvard's team is the oldest Rugby team in the United States. With around 60 members, Harvard Rugby is also one of the largest club teams at Harvard.