About Rugby (Series #015)

For the 15th presentation in the series, Kenji Deshima from the Faculty of Agriculture presented a talk on rubgy...

This topic provides a change from the presentations focusing on one's birthplace...  

He presented in English, and made a very good effort at it...

Kenji provided an interesting comparison between vairous aspects of the rugby game with that of American football...

There were 23 participants today, with 5 being international students...

The moderator was Lei Kun, from the Faculty of Economics...

There were many questions, some of which asked about whether the players traded punches as is commonly seen in soccer and ice hockey games... 

Apparently, within the High School rugby tournaments in Japan, Shikoku high schools are not known to be strong teams...
High schools in Fukuoka, Kanazawa, Osaka are the strong teams in these tournaments...