Concordia junior and coach Salim Kaderbhai is an international student who has played on Tanzania s national team. Though he recognizes the relative infancy of American Rugby, he is happy to be promoting the sport at Concordia. Contrary to popular belief, Kaderbhai says, rugby is not a rip-off of American football. It is a different sport entirely. The conditioning is very different.
Football is a lot of starting and stopping.
In rugby you keep going until someone else stops you. Though both are very team oriented, they also differ in style of play. Whereas a football game can be determined by a mobile quarterback or a hot-handed receiver, rugby almost never relies on individual talent. One player cannot carry a rugby team, said Kaderbhai. It takes everyone to move the ball up the field.