The Student catches up with EURFC 1st XV Captain three weeks before Scottish Varsity 2018 With the Gallagher Premiership providing marvellous rugby in the opening weeks, Ed Russell, EURFC 1st XV Captain, is now looking forward to another successful campaign with Edinburgh University’s 1st XV. The Student Paper was fortunate enough to catch-up with the new […]
On Monday 2 April, Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club (EURFC) Club President James Carson handed over a cheque for £4,000 to Finlay Calder OBE, a trustee of the My Name’5 Doddie foundation. The money given to the trust has been raised by University of Edinburgh students who have been part of the men’s rugby club over […]
Last week’s article in The Times, by Alex Lowe, revealed some of the sickening initiations that freshers joining university sports teams across the country must undergo, and has sparked widespread shock and outrage. From stories of fishing dead rats out of cider to having vomit thrown over them, the initiations described in the article were […]
On Saturday evening, the oldest varsity in the world returns for another instalment. Edinburgh and St Andrews have been battling each other for bragging rights since the 1860s, fighting for the title of best university rugby club in Scotland. However, since the fixture’s resurrection in 2011, it is St Andrews who have proved the dominant […]
Ever wanted to find out which subject was better History or Medicine? Well there is one way, and it’s not a Harry Hill style fight, its intramural rugby. Intramural rugby is played and usually coached by students from specific subjects or societies who compete in a league system where everyone plays each other. The top […]
It is not often you witness rugby history at Murrayfield, but the first Scottish Varsity game to be played at the national stadium was certainly that. With a bumper crowd of 9,679, one of the largest attendances for any student sport event in the country, Murrayfield was treated to an exhibition of attacking, positive rugby from […]