Trojans Rugby Football Club

The Trojans Rugby Football Club is an under-nineteen-year-old rugby club originally based out of Lassiter High School. It is one of the original high school rugby clubs which are part of the Georgia High School Rugby Association (GHSRA).^[1] The club was founded in 2005, and has made its mark on rugby in Georgia.^[2] Matches and practices are held at Noonday Creek Park in Marietta.^[2] Coach Randall Joseph has been the head coach since the club's founding, with John Green, Winston Daniels and Michael Murrell as assistant coaches. The club has taken park in many tournaments and state final matches in Georgia and the Southeast United States.^[3] A major goal of the Trojans Rugby Football Club is to teach and play the sport of rugby in the United States.^[4] This is a great struggle throughout Georgia because of opposition from the high school's football coaches and athletic directors.^[5] The club plays the most common version of rugby, called rugby union but often just referred to as rugby.^[6] Although the club plays by rugby union rules, they also play by the rules of the International Rugby Board (IRB) for those under 19 years of age.^[7] In the summer of 2011, the Trojan Rugby Football Club took part in another version of rugby called rugby sevens.^[8] This variation of rugby is faster paced, with the same size fields but fewer people, and shorter half lengths.^[9]