Unión de Rugby de Rosario
Rugby union body in Rosario, Santa Fe
The Rosario Rugby Union (Spanish: Unión de Rugby de Rosario) is the organisational body that controls the game of rugby union in Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The rest of Santa Fe province teams are organised under the Unión Santafesina de Rugby.
Best placed teams of RRU qualify to play the Torneo del Litoral, along with clubs from Santa Fe and Entre Ríos unions.
History
Although the first rugby game in Argentina took place on 28 June 1886, between Rosario A.C. (current "Atlético del Rosario") and Buenos Aires F.C. On 12 July a second game was played between both clubs, Buenos Aires FC being the winner. local newspaper La Capital (dated 19 October 1871) mentioned a match of "a strange game known in England as 'rugby football'".
In 1927 the British Isles team arrived to Rosario to play a match against a combined team formed by players of porteños clubs Universitario and Gimnasia y Esgrima due to the impossibility of joining a competitive team with the small number of players in Rosario. Players of both teams arrived in Rosario after a long journey by train from Retiro to Rosario Norte station, the same day of the match. Held in Plaza Jewell, home venue of Club Atlético del Rosario, the Lions defeated the combined team by 24–0 in a rainy day. The game (won by the British) was the first international game played at the city of Rosario.
One year later, Atlético del Rosario, Universitario, Gimnasia y Esgrima, Provincial, Newell's Old Boys and defunct Deportivo Argentino founded the "Santa Fe Rugby Union", on 14 August 1928.
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