Directed by Clint Eastwood, â??Invictusâ? stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman in a movie centered around the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The story of rugby in Madison is itself a good one. It dates to the early 1960s, according to a brief history on the Wisconsin Rugby Clubâ??s website. According to that history, the first rugby game played in the Midwest occurred in the spring of 1962 and matched a club from UW-Madison against a Notre Dame squad.
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