Flipping Over Rugby

The Daily Dartmouth has a web update about the Big Green winning the 2011 USA Collegiate Rugby 7s national championship and the Dartmouth Review chimes in as well. Here's how Dartmouth did it:

Pool Play
Dartmouth 17 Utah 12
Dartmouth 24 Notre Dame 19
Dartmouth 36 Boston College 0

Quarterfinal
Dartmouth 12 Penn State 7

Semifinal
Dartmouth 24 Central Washington 12

Final
Dartmouth 32
Army 10

Assorted videos from the weekend competition can be found here.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story and a Rugby Magazine story on coach Alex Magelby has former football players TJ Cameron and Tanner Scott in the accompanying photo.

The Delaware County Times writes about former cornerback/sprinter Muhammed Abdul-Shakoor's flip over the goal line for a try. From the story:

The flip by Abdul-Shakoor is understandable. He played football for the Big Green, was a standout track athlete in the 200-meter run, and he is a relative newcomer to rugby. In fact, Dartmouth has a few football players on the squad, and you could see the crossover talent in the team speed, which was head-and-shoulders above any of the six teams it defeated en route to the title.

However, just because a team has picked up athletes from other sports doesn’t mean they are going to pick up the intricacies of the sport and blend in with the longtime ruggers. Dartmouth just happened to get it right.

Highlights load quickly on this YouTube highlight package that includes Abdul-Shakoor's somersault flip at the 3:10 mark.

There's background on the Rugby 7's here.

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Now back to that other kind of football ...

Check out this video of Liberty University placekicker Alex Kacere's 3-pointer of a different flavor. Wonder how many "takes" that one required!