The Cape Fear Sevens, always played the first week in July, coinciding with the 4th of July festivities, is one of the most famous tournaments on the US rugby calendar.


Won by English teams Bristol, Harlequins and Bedford in 1984, 1986 and 1991, the Cape Fear tournament the most successful team is NOVA (from Northern Virginia), US Sevens Champions in 1986, who've won the tournament seven times. The founding fathers of NOVA, the Duck Brothers, won the tournament five times in the 80s.


Andrew Davies' Report:


Right off the bat, The Bahamas played NOVA who are a select team funded by a solid rugby man by the name of Bill Gardner who is a legend in US rugby. NOVA are perennial winners of this tournament and were loaded with big guns. They had 3-Fijians of international quality, a kiwi and some top level US players. We were blown away and lost 67 - 0. An indication of how bad things were was that I approached the ref at half time and said

"Ref, can we have another ball please, the other team are playing with that one".

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