University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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comes to gainesville Toughness and endurance are a must to play. The ball is kicked as well as carried. 97

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rugby The English sport of Rugby caught on at the University of Florida in 1969-70. A team comprised of foreign students with ability and local students learning the game played rugby clubs from Florida, Georgia and Alabama. A game of toughness and endurance, Rugby has no time outs and few roughness rules. A leather ball, a kind of cross between a football and a soccer ball, is either kicked or carried up and down the field towards a goal line. The Gainesville team played on the ROTC drill field or on Norman field, occasionally winning a close game or losing by as much as 35-3. Fielding the ball in a crowd makes you wonder who your friends are. A scrum, players must move the ball from inside this huddle formation to begin play. 96

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washington march The Death March - a Vietnam Memorial. Washington drew those united in purpose. Hundreds of thousands of American young people, including some 300 from the University of Florida, gathered in Washington, D.C. to voice their disapproval of the war in Viet Nam. The Nov. 14 and 15 march, organized by the new Student Mobilization Committee, was an example of the peace sought by participants from all over the United States. Some violence occured as radical groups sought to break up the march, but the spirit of peace was not to be denied. Though President Nixon announced the demonstrations would not effect his future Vietnam plans , the weight of young America ' s dissatisfaction with the war became painfully evident to him. 98