The 1975 National Rugby Championships were limited to Local Union championships since the United States of America Rugby Football Union had only been established on June 7 of that year in Chicago.[1] The Territorial selection tournament would not start until 1977 therefore most of the higher level play was by the sub-unions. There was no college tournament during the reorganization of the RFU[2] and the Monterey National played its 17th edition.
The Eastern Rockies v Texas match was the final of the Western RFU Championship Tournament, the idea of which was brought up during the June 1975 meeting in Chicago that established the United States RFU.[3] Third place went to Rio Grande RFU, Missouri RFU was fourth, Heart of America RFU fifth and Beehive Intermountain RFU sixth.
The 1975 Monterey National Rugby Championship was the 17th edition of the tournament and was considered to be the de facto national championship.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] This event took place at Pebble Beach, CA from March 22–23. The tournament MVP was Mike Hodgins (Cal Berkeley), Most Valuable Fan was 86 year old Watson Luke, Steve Montgomery of the Old Blues won the Drop Kick competition while Mickey Ording of X–Os was runner-up.[25] UCLA went 5–0 to take first place.[26][27][28][29][30][31]
Champions: University of California at Los Angeles Bruins Coach: Dennis Storer Captains: Terry Scott, Wade Killefer Roster: Steve Auerbach, David Briley, Del Chipman, Tom Clark, Jeff Ferrar, John Fowler, Jamie Grant, Dennis Jablonski, Art Keuhn, Larry Layne, Randy Lovelace, Jesse Naufahu, Rudi Nieto, John Pasquariello, Vince Pasquariello, Ed Purcell, Jeff Smith, David Sugden, John Sullivan, Greg Viviano.
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