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With two wins as a team and a win over the Royal Navy fifteen when playing with Yale, the Crimson Rugby Club was highly successful in its second annual trip to Bermuda. On Monday, March 3, it defeated the Bermuda Athletic Association 15-5 as soon as it debarked and the next day was able to repeat with an 8-5 victory over Yale.
On Wednesday the Crimson Jayvees and the Eli seconds lost to an All-Bermuda outfit, 6-0. However, the combined Varsity team, with Harvard contributing seven and Yale eight men, won an overwhelming victory over His Majesty's Navy with a score of 15-0 on Thursday. As a result the Harvard Rugby Club was awarded the Bermuda Trade Development Board Trophy for the year 1936.
The lineup was as follows: forwards, Platt (Y), Davis (Y), Murtha (Y), Towle (Y), Bob Knapp (H, Capt.), Pete Knapp (B), McGinn (H); scrum half, Fayette (H); fly half, Channing (B); wing 3/4, Frank (Y), Loomis (Y); center 3/4, Simpson* (H), Despard (Y, Capt.); full back, Whitehead (L), Scoring: tries, first half-Fayette, Frank, Channing; second half--Williams, Bob Knapp. Total 15-0.
*Substituting for Meiklejohn.
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