Pygmies Attend School of Hard Knocks
By Dave Wheelock

The New Mexico Tech Rugby Football Club took a ride on an emotional roller coaster Saturday in Albuquerque, jetting off to a two-try lead before falling behind, battling back, and finally losing 26-24 to the Brujos RFC on a heartbreaking play at the final whistle. View Entire Article »

March 29 Officially Proclaimed as "New Mexico Tech Rugby Day"
By Dave Wheelock

New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron has officially declared Saturday, March 29, as "New Mexico Tech Rugby Football Club Day" throughout the state, in recognition of the club's 30-year record of athletic achievement and international goodwill. View Entire Article »

Pygmies Advance to Playoffs
By Dave Wheelock

Tech's men's rugby club has advanced to the Western USA Rugby Football Union's Division II collegiate playoffs, to be contested in Dallas the weekend of April 5 & 6. View Entire Article »

Tech Puts the "Foot" Back in Rugby Football
By Dave Wheelock

The New Mexico Tech men's rugby club literally kicked off the spring season Saturday in Las Cruces, implementing a kicking attack to turn the tables on New Mexico State University, 28-14. Just three weeks ago, the Chiles had embarrassed the Pygmies on their home turf in a February 1 preseason scrimmage by scoring six tries (touchdowns) to Tech's solitary score. View Entire Article »

Tech Miners Back to .500
By Coach Paul Fuierer

The New Mexico Tech Miners, competing in the first division of the Albuquerque Soccer League (ASL), are back to a 0.500 record for the 2002-2003 season. After a long drought of winless games, the men's soccer team has won back-to-back games in the last two weeks, improving their ASL record to 4-4-2. View Entire Article »

Western USA Collegiate Rugby Championships in Dallas
By Dave Wheelock

The only victories recorded by the New Mexico Tech Rugby Club over the weekend at the Western USA Rugby Union's Division II championships in Dallas were moral ones, as the team fell behind in all three of its matches before beginning futile comebacks. The team was pummeled by 2002 Final Four powerhouse Sam Houston State (45-0) and then Northeastern (Oklahoma) State University (47-10) on Saturday before achieving a measure of respectability in a 12-5 Sunday morning loss to Pittsburg State (Kansas) in a match that could have gone either way. View Entire Article »

New Mexico Tech Miners Finish Season with Win
By Coach Paul Fuierer

The New Mexico Tech Miners met on Sunday, April 27, at Milne Soccer Field in Albuquerque for the last game of the 2002-2003 season. On the other side of the pitch, cloaked in green jerseys, were the "Street Frogs," another Albuquerque Soccer League division one team. View Entire Article »

NMT Rugby Club in Dramatic Win
By Dave Wheelock

The San Juan Sanchos Rugby Club arrived in Socorro a few bricks short of a load Saturday. Playing with five seasoned veterans loaned them by host New Mexico Tech, they nearly managed to ruin the Pygmy's home opener before falling, 41-39. View Entire Article »

Tech Rugby Club Romps over Brujos
By Dave Wheelock

The Pygmy ruggers of New Mexico Tech exacted a measure of revenge Saturday with a 46-24 romp over the Brujos Rugby Club. Last spring season, it was the Brujos over the Pygmies twice, by 26-24 and 27-7 scores. All seven of Tech's tries were touched down by back line players, a fleet group of seven the Albuquerque club could not hope to contain. View Entire Article »

NMT Miners NIRSA Soccer Debut in Tucson
By Paul Fuierer

This past weekend the NMT Miner Men kicked off their Fall 2003 season at the University of Arizona collegiate club soccer tournament. Not only was this their first play of the season, but it was also their initiation into the NIRSA (National Intramural Recreation and Sports Association) collegiate club soccer league. View Entire Article »

NMT Ruggers Overcome Odds
By Dave Wheelock

As happens from time to time, the demands upon budding engineers and scientists dealt New Mexico Tech's rugby team lemons last weekend (Sept. 27-28). And so, in the best tradition of the 30-year-old club, a shorthanded Pygmy team made lemonade, managing two tournament wins against one loss in the rarified air of Flagstaff, Arizona. View Entire Article »

Tech Ruggers Winners in Vegas
By Dave Wheelock

New Mexico Tech's rugby team beat the house and the weather in Las Vegas (NM) Saturday, bringing home a 30-14 win over the Highlands University Rugby Club. The Pygmies squeezed four tries into the narrow confines of Perkins Stadium and between intermittent showers while yielding the home team two scores for the difference. View Entire Article »

NMT Ruggers Reprise Giant-killing Tradition
By Dave Wheelock

The New Mexico Tech rugby team returned to an honored club tradition to put a flourish on a 2-1 record in the 32nd running of the High Desert Classic tournament in Albuquerque over the weekend. Tech went up against heavily favored Rice University in their third match of a long Saturday, and came away with another famous victory to enhance the Pygmy mystique. View Entire Article »

NMT Ruggers Are Accommodating Hosts
By Dave Wheelock

New Mexico Tech's Pygmies were the perfect rugby hosts for their elders, the Ancestor alumni team, over the 49ers weekend (Oct. 24-25, 2003). They welcomed the veterans with a fine meal at a local restaurant on Friday night, hosted a golf tournament on Saturday morning, and entertained with a bonfire on Saturday night. And, for that special touch, they dutifully lost the annual Black & Blue rugby match before a good crowd on Friday afternoon, by the convincing score of 51-10. View Entire Article »

NMT Ruggers Drop Autumn Finale
By Dave Wheelock

The New Mexico Tech Rugby Club spent most of their allotted 80 minutes on Saturday, Nov. 1 clawing for a brief lead but were disappointed in the end as upriver rivals Albuquerque Brujos Rugby Club took a 50-32 victory. The loss pegs Tech's record at 8 wins against 7 losses at the conclusion of the fall campaign. View Entire Article »

Tech's All-Stars Shine at Higher Level
By Dave Wheelock

New Mexico Tech was well represented by five players at the Western USA Rugby Football Union's (RFU) regional All-star tournament at Santa Ana Pueblo over the weekend of Nov. 1-2. Taking the field for the Rio Grande Rugby Union "Mudcats" Saturday morning against the Eastern Rockies RFU were senior flanker and NMT captain Mark Kelly, junior wing Mike Bauer, junior flyhalf/center and co-captain Patrick Simons, junior fullback Robert Harrison, and sophomore flanker Matt Majors. View Entire Article »