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2015 Collegiate Rugby Championship

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Date
  
May 30–31 2015

Matches played
  
46

Champions
  
California

Teams
  
20

Venue
  
PPL Park, Philadelphia

Tournament format(s)
  
Round-robin and Knockout

The 2015 Collegiate Rugby Championship was a college rugby sevens tournament held May 30—31 at PPL Park in Chester, a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. It was the sixth annual Collegiate Rugby Championship, and the fifth consecutive year that the tournament was held at PPL Park. The tournament is known for sponsorship reasons as the 2015 Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship.

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Qualifying

Several of the 2015 CRC teams were invited to play, but three teams reached the 2015 CRC via conference qualifying tournaments and one via the national LVI qualifying tournament:

  • Southeastern conference 7s champion: Alabama
  • Big Ten conference 7s champion: Indiana
  • Atlantic Coast conference 7s champion: Virginia Tech
  • Las Vegas Invitational: Arkansas State

    • Cal, the defending champion from 2013 and 2014, entered the tournament as the favorite, due to the strength and depth of their squad.

    Leading scorers

    Source:

    References

    2015 Collegiate Rugby Championship Wikipedia
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