The University's Men's Rugby Football Club dates back to 1986.The University of Hartford Men's Rugby Football Club was started 22 years ago by Associate Athletic Director/Sports Center Director, Ted Stavropoulos. The club has since disassociated itself with the University's Athletic Department and is now a club sport under the guidance, funding and advisory Student Government Association of the University of Hartford.

Rugby is a combination of football and soccer, as both feet and hands can be used. The ball can only be passed laterally or backwards, with the ball only being able to advance by running or kicking the ball forward. You can't block like in football, and similar to soccer are the offside rules. Play is continuous.

The reason you may not have heard of rugby at Hartford is because the team is not allowed to play on campus due to the fact that their half-inch spikes would ruin the field. In the late 1980's, a few players found an overgrown field a quarter-mile behind Public Safety which happened to be part of the Annie Fisher School. They cleaned up the field and made it playable. The team has since had an exchange with the Annie Fisher School to keep the field clean so they can use it.

Men's Rugby is a club sport, which means that it is not part of the University's Division I intercollegiate athletics program. The club plays under the New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) and USA Rugby. The club is a Men's Collegiate Division III Rugby Football Club the plays in regional conferences with other collegiate teams.

The team practices nearly every day of the week, with Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays focusing on going over plays and creating game plans for upcoming matches. Conditioning practices, which take place on Mondays and Wednesdays, involve a series of calisthenics, sprints, and laps around the campus.