Albatross Rugby Football Club
We were established by Loren "Coach" Brake, Keith Kollbaum, and Jeff Sassman back in 1983. I am sure there were probably more guys involved in the revamping of the old Sea Gulls Team than that but there names were carved in stone and lost in the last ice age. Our club is based in Storm Lake , Iowa and draws players from as far as Des Moines and Orange City.
We play in the Mens D-III and are sanctioned by our LAU (local area union) the Great Plains Rugby Union , as well as the USA Rugby Union.
Our Club is always looking for new players as well as fans. If you are at all interested in playing or watching, send us a email with how to get ahold of you and you will be contacted.
"Rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans."
- A wise man
"The tactical difference between Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missles."
- Author and Anthropologist Alfred E. Crawley
"Rugby is great.The players don’t wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer.I love that."
- Joe Theismann
"Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other."
-Peter Fitzsimons
The advantage law is the best law in rugby, because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game."
- Derek Robinson
