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Rob Stapleton News-MinerON THE RUN—Sean Carlisle of the Fairbanks Sundawgs tries to avoid the Saturday's Ivor Jones Pearl Harbor Day Rugby Classic on the Chena River tackle of Doug Harvey with a stiff arm as Ray Vaara closes in during behind Pike's Landing. The game ended in a traditional 14-14 tie.LOOSE BALL—Al McCook of the Fairbanks Wild Hares and Bob Nesbitt of the Sundawgs converge on a loose ball.Holiday on iceRugby teams play despite low temperatureBy TIM MOWRYStaff Writer The fact the temperature on the field was 26 below zero didn’t bother Mark Muller.“I still get to hit people for the pleasure of it,” said a grinning Muller, a.k.a. Psycho by his teammates.With that, Muller pulled on a pair of gloves and headed out the door of Pike’s Landing for the second half of rugby action Saturday.It doesn’t matter if the temperature is 50 below zero or50 above.It doesn't matter if the game is being played on snow, ice, sand or grass.Some things about the sport of rugby—and the people who play it—never change.“It makes people think you’re braver and stupider,” said Sundawgs back Sean Carlisle, one of about 20 players from the Sundawgs and Wildhares who showed up for the annual winter game. “I think bravery and stupidity are hand in-hand in this game.”Said Karl Semancik, a 39-year-old major at Fort Wain wright who plays for the Wild Hares/1 Wrhere else can you play rugby at 25 below?”Officially it is called the Ivor Jones Memorial Pearl Harbor Day Rugby Classic, named after a long-time Fairbanks rugby referee who died in a car crash last winter.The slang term for the annual game is insanity.Witness Bob Nesbitt of the Sundawgs. Nesbitt was the only See RUGBY on Page D-2
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Tue, Dec 15, 1992
Page 23
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