Chicago Area Rugby Football Union

Chicago Area Rugby Football Union
Sport	Rugby union
Founded	1974
President	Lou Raymond
Men's coach	TBA
Women's coach	TBA
Website	carfurugby.org

The Chicago Area Rugby Football Union (CARFU) is the Local Area Union (LAU) for rugby union teams in the Chicago metropolitan area. CARFU is part of the Midwest Rugby Football Union (MRFU), which is also the governing body for the Allegheny, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin LAU's. All local and territorial unions are part of USA Rugby.

Men's

Division I

Chicago Griffins [1]
Chicago Lions [2]

Division II

Chicago Blaze (Lemont, IL) [3]
Lincoln Park (Chicago) [4]
Southside Irish (Chicago) [5]
Chicago Riot (Chicago) [6]^{[permanent dead link‍]}

Division III

Fox Valley Maoris (St. Charles, IL) [7]
Chicago Westside Condors [8]
IASCW Shamrocks (Manhattan, IL) [9]
Illiana Misfits Rugby (Hammond, IN) [10]
Northwest Indiana Exiles (Hobart, IN)[11]
Northwest Woodsmen (Schaumburg, IL) [12]
Rockford Ravens [13]

Division IV

Chicago Blue (Law Enforcement Rugby) [14]
Chicago Dragons [15]
Chicago Roosters (Wheaton, IL) [16]
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Lake County Gladiators

Women's

Women's Premiere League (WPL)

Chicago North Shore Women's RFC^[1]

Division I

Chicago Women's

Division II

Chicago Sirens,^[2] County Will Morrigans, Fox Valley Vixens,^[3] Illiana Banshees ^[4]

Collegiate

CARFU features teams from eight schools: Chicago, DePaul, Illinois-Chicago, Lake Forest, Loyola, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Lewis, and Elmhurst. As of 2008, Notre Dame switched to Division I status, the only CARFU collegiate club competing at that level. Lake Forest only plays in the spring and does not compete for the CARFU Cup in the fall. The University of Chicago is one of the oldest clubs in the US, having been formed in 1933. Lewis University and Elmhurst are the newest members of CARFU, with Elmhurst beginning play in fall 2010. Loyola, Northern Illinois, UIC, the University of Chicago and Lake Forest compete at the Division II level. Elmhurst, Lewis, and DePaul are Division III.

Men's

2006 CARFU Champion, Loyola, lost to Wisconsin–Milwaukee 49–0 in the first round of the Midwest Division II Playoffs, and then subsequently lost to Iowa St. 8–3.
The 2007 CARFU Champion was Northwestern University, winning it for the first time since 1999. They went 5–0 in conference play and 5-1 overall.
The 2008 CARFU Champion was Loyola (4-1), although Northern Illinois University (5-0) beat them earlier in the season. Northern Illinois was disqualified because some of their players were not CIPPed in time for the first game of the season. Loyola went on to the Midwest Rugby Union playoffs. Loyola and Northwestern have won the last six CARFU titles (Loyola-4, Northwestern-2).
2010 CARFU champion, Northern Illinois University, with a 7–1 season.
2011 CARFU champion, Northern Illinois University
2012 CARFU champion, Northern Illinois University
2013 CARFU champion, Northern Illinois University

LAU Competition

References

^ "Home". northshorerugby.com.
^ "Home". sirensrugby.com.
^ "Fox Valley Vixens | Womens Rugby Club | Chicago | Saint Charles". Archived from the original on 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
^ "Illiana Banshees Women's Rugby – Illiana Rugby Football Club Est. 2002". Archived from the original on 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2022-06-30.

[1] "Home". northshorerugby.com.

[2] "Home". sirensrugby.com.

[3] "Fox Valley Vixens | Womens Rugby Club | Chicago | Saint Charles". Archived from the original on 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2022-06-30.

[4] "Illiana Banshees Women's Rugby – Illiana Rugby Football Club Est. 2002". Archived from the original on 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2022-06-30.

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