maggots.orgMissoula Montana All-Maggots Rugby Club

wmerrill Normal Aaron Windels 656 2941 2011-08-30T17:13:00Z 2017-06-12T21:25:00Z 21 5310 30269 Bresnan Communications 252 71 35508 14.00 Print 90 Clean Clean false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Rugby as it should be, since 1976 Montana Rugby Union Champions 2015! 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011*, 2012, 2015 Maggot email: johnoetinger@outlook.com *indicates undefeated season Maggoty Facebook Maggoty Photos Maggoty Twitter Maggoty Instagram Welcome to the Maggot Page! Click on the links for lots of pictures, stories, news, and nonsense about the Maggots. The Maggots? In the spring of 1976, a group of University of Montana rugby players / students-for-life finally graduated or gave up aspirations of higher learning. Faced with the harsh realities of graduation and lack of a rugby team, they formed a new "old boys" side that summer. The name "UM Old Boys" might have been adopted had it not been for the typically insensitive Canadians who referred to the new team as "that bunch of maggots from Montana." The name stuck and has always been worn with pride by one of the top rugby teams in the northwestern United States. The Maggots uniform is basic black with white collars, a color scheme that has also been adopted by the New Zealand national rugby team. On the shirt is a rosetta of intertwined maggots . Alternate kits include white jerseys with black and white segmented sleeves and black and white quarter panels . The Maggots play at the Maggot Rugby Park, located in southwest Missoula in the Fort Missoula Park complex, off South Street. The Rugby park, with its full-sized pitch and views of the mountains, is widely acclaimed as one of the premier rugby venues in the northwest. Here's directions to the Missoula Maggot Rugby Park We field two full sides each weekend through the spring and fall seasons, playing other teams from the Montana Rugby Union and visitors from the rest of the rugby world. The Maggots also field an old boys side, "The Flies" (all good Maggots grow up to be Flies), who play less regularly. Here are a few team photos. More will be added as they surface. MRU Cup Champions 2006 State Champions, 1977 Tour to Bahamas, 1980 In Scottsdale, Arizona, 2001 Montana Rugby Union A-Side Champions, 2001 MRU A- and B-Side Champions, 2001 Montana Rugby Union A-Side Champions, 2002 Montana Rugby Union B-Side Champions, 2002 Kootenai Cup Champions, 2004 The Maggots also tour frequently, traveling to Australia in October of 2003 for the World Cup. Other past major trips have included New Zealand, the Caribbean, and a tour of the UK during the 1999 World Cup . We also take regular Bus tours around the US and Canada, recently having driven south to Arizona for a week, and central California for another. If you are moving to the Missoula area, send us a message to the Maggoty-Mailer: johnoetinger@outlook.com . Or, if you prefer to use the information dirt road, send mail to PO Box 8704, Missoula, MT, 59807. The Missoula All-Maggots RFC is an IRS-recognized tax-deductible nonprofit organization, and we're always on the lookout for sponsors. Please send us an email: johnoetinger@outlook.com or write us at PO Box 8704, Missoula, MT, 59807 if you or your company are interested in helping support athletics in the Missoula area. Take me back to the top. Maggotfest Attention Team Captains and Potential Festers! Click here to learn more about the world famous Maggotfest and sign up online now! Past trophy winners are listed here . For a hint of what can go on that weekend, here are some highlights (lowlights?) of past Maggotfests: an insider's view from Doc the Maggot . We were also the subject of a nice bit of press from the Missoula Independent just before Fest '98, and written up in the August 2001 issue of Rugby magazine . I forgot where I was; take me back to the top. Schedules Schedule Spring 2019 Practices for the Spring 2019 Season begin in Mid-February 2019 (weather dependent but might practice indoor too) and continues every Tuesday and Thursday at the Ft. Missoula Rugby Pitch at 6:00 PM. In the meantime, keep fit. Players - new and experienced - are always welcome. Tentative Season Timelines for 2019 are as follows: 2019 Spring 15’s rugby season - March 1st-May 20th 2019 (competitive-playoff season) 2019 Summer 7’s & 15’s rugby season - May 28th – August 3rd 2019 (casual) 2019 Fall 15’s rugby season - August 23 rd – October 13th 2018 (competitive) For more information: Owen – Club President – (406) 274-5444, owenscully71@yahoo.com …or Josh – Coach – janderson152481@gmail.com All games begin at 1:00 P.M. on Saturdays unless noted otherwise. Here are directions to the Missoula Maggot Rugby Park Summaries, comments and outright lies about each match from our crack news team will be available here once the season begins. Commentaries on some past seasons are also available here, including : : 2016 (Spring & Fall) , 2015 (Spring & Fall) , 2014 (Spring & Fall) , 2013 (Spring & Fall) , Fall 2007 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2006 , Spring 2005 , Spring, 2004 , Spring 2002 , Summer, 2001 , Spring 2001 , Fall, 2000 , Spring 2000 , Fall 1999 and Spring 1999 . You will also find descriptions of some of our tours, including Australia for the 2003 World Cup , Vail, Colorado in the Summer of 2002 and the UK for the World Cup in 1999 . Now I'm really lost, take me back to the top. The Maggot Bus “An amazing thing the Maggot Bus. I think I've been in every version (5 total), but they all feel the same inside. It's like the Dalai Llama, the external body of one may die, but the spirit of the Bus moves directly to another body. -Doc 2015 One tradition the Maggots have kept throughout history is the Maggot Bus , our clubhouse on wheels. We're currently driving the fifth incarnation of the Maggot bus . The latest version was bought in 2009. This is the epitome of rolling in style, comfort and luxury to away matches. The Bus also provides for inexpensive rugby tours, such as recent trips to the Arizona desert, the California coast, and Colorado Mountain towns. After former lives as a school bus and a forest circus bus, the Bus has been modified for the unique Maggot lifestyle , allowing the mayhem and camaraderie that have built the club into a closely-knit brotherhood. The last ten feet of seats were ripped out and replaced by the elevated, carpeted Pit , a favored lounging site for non-rookies. There's a card room mid-way back, for games of "oh hell" during those interminable voyages to Billings and a funnel up front so we never have to stop except for beer, gas, and breakdowns (not necessarily in that order). Grafitti , stickers and old food cover the ceiling and walls, while duct tape patches the windows broken out during the sometimes devastating Pit brawls . Night-time, and the Bus becomes the Great Green Hotel, as the Pit rapidly fills with sleeping Maggots, while others stretch out on Bus boards laid across the aisle. Like the game of rugby itself, the Bus is not for the fainthearted. The floors are swept once a year, whether they need it or not (one advantage of this is that you can almost always find a stray Bus beer rolling under the seats - even near the end of a three day trip to Edmonton in '94, brews miraculously appeared from the debris. Bus beers also played a major role in getting us across the Canadian border that trip - but I'm digressing - back to describing the Bus). I imagine the carpet in the Pit was clean once, but nobody can remember it being so. The Bus is also home to the Grunge, a particularly virulent pestilence that has occasionally decimated the team after tours. But, as a famous dead guy once said, that which does not kill us makes us stronger. We can definitely guarantee that you'll never forget the Bus! Maggot Rugby Frequently Asked Questions 1. What is the object of rugby? A. Run as little as possible,...