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Memories from the 1969–1970 Season

Mizzou Rugby Photo Archive

From the 1970 Savitar

The University of Missouri yearbook gave the rugby club two pages of photographs for the 1969–70 school year.

Black and white photograph of Mizzou forwards in hooped jerseys packed together in a ruck, trees and a tall building behind them
Forwards locked together in a ruck. This photo takes up the top of the yearbook's second rugby page.
Close-up of Tom Mohan, his face and hair spattered with mud, hand raised to his mouth
“Mud, guts, bruises and sprains — Missouri’s Tom Mohan all.”
A Mizzou jumper stretching both arms high for the ball at a line out as players crowd beneath him
“No fans, this was not the last stand at Bunker Hill, it’s called a scrum.” The yearbook called it a scrum, but the photo shows a line out, with a jumper reaching for the throw.
Three rain-soaked Mizzou players standing close together, the front man with wet curly hair
“Stan Feldman, Charlie Stoecker and Rocky Rowan waited in the rain.” The yearbook misspelled his name; it is Charlie Stecher.
Jack Coates in a hooped jersey with a headband, muddy-faced, carrying a rugby ball in both hands
Jack Coates with the ball. The caption was cut off in the scan: “Out of the scrum came something that looked like a fat f[ootball] (above). Jack Coates picked one up and of all things, tried t…”
Scan of the 1970 Savitar yearbook rugby page, headed Despite splitting, with the Tom Mohan and line out photographs
The first rugby page (page 72) as printed. Its write-up covers the fall results against Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and Palmer College and the Notre Dame match in the spring. Those results are now on the 1969 season page.

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