Talk About Bracket Busters! I have seen Division II Brandywine Rugby Club play twice during the last several months, both times as visitors and both times against Division I clubs. And both times Brandywine spanked the big boys convincingly. Last September Brandywine laid a 48-0 licking on Philadelphia-Whitemarsh at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, and on Saturday in the mud of FDR Park in South Philly the suburban boys shut out another solid city side, the Schuylkill River Exiles, by a similar result if not high score.

Brandywine forwards, in red and black, powered their way to a try on this movement, which completed an 80-yard counterattack from a Schuylkill kick that never found touch. I couldn't help but notice all the Philadelphia-Whitemarsh kit bags among the Brandywine players' gear on the sideline. Oh, yeah, and then there was their coach, George Betzler, who may or may not have something to do with Brandywine becoming the emerging beast of Eastern Pennsylvania rugby.