University of Virginia Law School - Barrister Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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Eghginia ?Rughg glincdhall Qlluh With a thump a pear-shaped ball sails down an over- sized football field and another game is underway. For the next eighty minutes, for the uninitiated, mayhem runs rampant. Thirty players run at each other, tackle, fall, get up and repeat the process. They form huddles and the ball is thrown into the group. When it pops out again a made scramble ensues. It seems everyone wants the ball but as soon as they get it and get tackled, they drop it. The language is even strange. Scrum right. Coming in now. Kick for touch. Heel, now the heel. This so are ely organized game of keepaway is called rugby football. Spawned at a Law School cocktail party four years ago, by two law students who had enjoyed the spell of rugby in undergraduate days, the Virginia Rugby Foot- ball Club now boasts over sixty members. With success and the concurrent interest it aroused, undergraduates and other graduate students became entranced with this English version of football. Played without the usual football equipment and not diminished in pace by set plays, rugby is one of the roughest games. A spirit of camaraderie springs from the roughness and the English tradition brings sportsmanship of a curious nature to Americans. Not only is the will to K h t THIRD YEAR Jeremiah R. Leary Michael Kitay John Walters SECOND YEAR: Chandler Lee Van Orman Philip w. Watson A. Zachary Smith MEMBERSHIP 118 win and respect for the winner a Vital part of the game, but a spectator might be astonished to see opposing players helping each other up from the turf. The players feel a brotherhood; they feel an urge to perpetuate the traditions of the game. The game has been characterized as a game for hooligans played by gentlemen. There is an active bond with the Opposing team which is cemented after the confrontation with glass after glass from the keg; for a celebration after the game is also part of the tradition. The Law School members of the Virginia Rugby Foot- ball Club are presently in the minority. The club has be- come an institution at the Univelsity. It is a power in east-coast rugby and is a full member of the Eastern Rugby Union. It draws the older teams, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and Notre Dame to Charlottesville for engage- ments, including the Commonwealth Cup games in the Spring. The team also travels a great deal, with trips to New York and Philadelphia quite common. Originating at th- Law School, and fast becoming a tradition at the Uni versity, rugby has given Virginia 3 winning team in a i athletic endeavor - no small accomplishment. First row: A. Allen, C Vanorman, D. Davis M. Kitay. Second row H. Franklin, I. Leary G. McDowell, 2. Smith D. Rohrer. FIRST YEAR: Humes S. Franklin Gerald E. McDove

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$pnria The scope of Law School athletic prowess was once again felt amont the UniversityCommunity this year. The fall season saw an unprecedented five teams emerge from the depths of the Clark Hall library to take part in Mad Bowl mayhem, with the third-year Clients, an irrespress- ible force buoyed up by various ineligible ringers whose names shall pass unmentioned, carrying off the IM trophy. The University tennis tournament witnessed an all-law school final as Lee Fentress was nipped by returning Davis Cupper Gene 8 c ott. Handball continued to provide an excellent means of losing the Law School blues and Mac Caputo found his way down to the Gym often enough to win the high-point title. With four teams, including the second-year, defend- ing-titilist Torts, competing in the basketball compe- tition, the Winter season offered continued variety for absentees from the Law Library. Volleyball made its entry upon the scene, possibly as a protest against the U. S. Olympic team's performance, and with the spring the three class teams were eagerly swinging their hats and dropping pop flies. The traditional fratricidal struggle between various Law School organizations again provided a unique outlet for frustrated athletes to direct abuse at faculty referees. Summing up:the reputation of the Law School-bg vivant is in no dang er. Samuel W. Hixon, Robert Wood, John Walteis, Paul Verkuyl.