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Randall T. Mudge & Associates, Architects have created a firm website relatively recently. Familiar projects will include the Powerhouse Shopping Center in West Lebanon, David’s House at DHMC, and Dragon and the Rugby Clubhouse at Dartmouth.

Randall T. Mudge’s design for the Rugby Clubhouse has won a state AIA merit award.

Trumbull-Nelson’s Constructive Images (Fall 2005) features an article on Randall Mudge’s Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.

A somewhat disjointed article on Dartmouth’s local pre-soccer form of soccer, Old Division Football, has been posted.

The only information of any interest outside Dartmouth might be the conclusions, obvious enough but still not widely known, that:

1. The first soccer game in the world between two universities seems to have been the Princeton-Rutgers game of 1869. Oxford and Cambridge did not play until 1872. (The Football Association wrote the rules of “soccer” in 1863, and Rutgers was using those rules, possibly with slight variations.) The story that Princeton and Rutgers played the first American gridiron football game before rugby had arrived is so obviously incorrect that it is hard to imagine why it is still told, yet it is the official line at Rutgers. Back then, soccer was called “football” and allowed the use of the hands, just not running with the ball.

2. The first college football game in the U.S. was the McGill-Harvard rugby game of 1874. College football and pro football as we know them today are descendants of the rugby that McGill played. The first college football game between U.S. teams was the Harvard-Yale game of 1875. Princeton, Rutgers, and the other schools that had been playing soccer dropped it and switched to rugby. All American football is played under the rules of rugby as used by Harvard and Yale and modified by them and their later competitors during the succeeding decades.

Images of the nearly-completed clubhouse at Garipay Field on Reservoir Road are on line.   The building, designed by Randall T. Mudge and Associates Architects of Lyme, was begun during July, 2004 and will be dedicated September 23-24, 2005.   The building is flanked by two fields: Brophy Field and Battle Field.

The Town votes at the Town Meeting on May 10 whether to spend $50,000 to build a roundabout (1.5mb pdf map) at the intersection of Lyme Road and Reservoir Road.

DRFC announce that the new Rugby Clubhouse will be dedicated on September 23-24 (construction images).

[Update 07.01.2005: The Lyme, N.H. firm of Randall T. Mudge and Associates - Architects designed the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.]

Construction is beginning on the Rugby Clubhouse, and the latest plans are on line.

Ground has finally been broken for the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse, designed by Randall T. Mudge & Associates of Lyme, Voxreports.

Lebanon residents have appealed the town planning board’s approval of the Sachem project, which includes construction of new housing and the Rugby Clubhouse.  The Clubhouse may have to wait until 2005 or later to open.

The school currently is planning the long-suffering Rugby Clubhouse for Sachem Field, as the master plan associates it with the Sachem Village Redevelopment.

The College has revised the Rugby Clubhouse plan as part of a Planned Unit Recreational Development at Sachem Field, as The Dartmouth reported.

The Town of Lebanon has blocked an application for construction of the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse, The Dartmouth reports.

The Rugby Club is planning the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse, designed by Randall Mudge, the school announced.