At the next level were primarily social organizations such as the St. Louis Royals and the Sunday Morning Rugby Club. I don't recall any stories or facts about the Royals, they were that nondescript. Sunday Morning was so named because they never practiced, and only showed up to play on Sunday Mornings.

A final group of clubs represented the youth of the Union. St. Louis University and the Webster School Boys (primarily high school) were joined in the Spring of 1975 by Washington University. Ranging in age from 16 to 22, the members of these teams were driven to Rugby by the raging hormones in their bodies, a need to find people with I.D.s to buy them beer, and in most cases frustrations brought on by their direct experience with high school or college football coache~. Tradition was that the best players from these teams would be recruited by the Falcons, Bombers, and Ramblers with the dregs going elsewhere in the Union.

Washington University and St. Louis UnIversity enjoyed a particularly intense rivalry in those first years. Wash U being the Harvard of the Midwest was founded and coached by an ex St. Louis U player, Dwayne Goddard. With his ties to St. Louis U still in place, Dwayne scheduled Wash U's first game against St. Louis U.

St. Louis U (the Notre Dame of, well, St. Louis I guess) had canceled their football program in the early 70's. Whether due to budget constraints or a lack of chastity displayed by the team members we will never know. Certainly the scandals in the Jesuit world in the last few years would seem to indicate a problem in this area, but in 1975 the Rugby team was well organized and popular on the St. Louis U campus.

The first game resulted in victory by St. Louis U. There is a story told by John Wolfe that he scored a key try late in the game but anyone that knows him realizes this is most likely untrue. At the keg party afterwards, a new Olympic quality sport was invented called "catch the keg". It seems the first keg was empty. A group of players (leadership claimed by both schools) "borrowed" a full keg from the Wash U Sigma Nu Fraternity house. After convincing the Frat boys that the full keg was empty by suggesting that no one can carry a full one like that, someone tossed an empty keg into a group of players, Bernie Lears grabbed it from the air and exclaimed "Hey, watch that". He then returned the keg by saying "who wants to catch this keg?" The scrummers took to this as great fun while the backs ran away like the women -they are. The teams then took to scoring with each other's women and finishing the "free" keg. The St. Louis U players were astounded to meet the Jewish women watching the Wash U players, and even more astounded that they did not have to promise marriage and procreation to have relationships with these women. The Wash U players were happy to see the St. Louis U women and were just fine promising anything it took to be with a women that didn't have a better moustache than their own. Along with the beer, it was a mix that resulted in both sides having more than a good time.