About the Kronks - Victoria, Texas

Just a bit of history:

The Victoria Rugby Football Club came back to life in the fall of 1993 at the urging of soon-to-be-captain, Mike Schroeder. The "Kronks" were named for the legendary warrior tribe of the Karankawa Indians who roamed the Gulf Coast hundreds of years ago, and picked up where the "Wailers" had left off in their previous life in the early 1980's.

After a few friendly scrimmages in Corpus Christi and Houston, The Kronks suited up for the Galveston Mardi Gras Tournament in 1994 "for real" and have not looked back. In the eleven seasons that have followed, the Kronks have advanced to the Texas Rugby Union playoffs six times, have hosted the South Texas Tourney twice, have hosted one English touring side, and have competed in numerous tourneys on the road.

Victoria RFC is unique in its access to two home playing fields...one in Victoria at the Crain Intermediate School and one in McFaddin at the polo fields. In addition, practices are held weekly during the respective seasons at the Stroman Memorial Campus.

Our home "pub" for our first three seasons was Bud's Deli, complete with rugby decor and a wide variety of refreshments. During its "relocation" and the 1997-01 seasons, the Kronks roamed to several watering holes. We settled in at The Ice House until it closed in December, 2005. We are now at home at Shooters, 4102 N. Navarro.

Our "business" cards, first prepared for that trip to Galveston in 1994, still say it right:

Victoria Rugby Football Club
Good Competitors
Good Hosts
Good Guests

LET'S PLAY!

Rugby Basics

Each club puts 15 men on the field. Substitution is limited and only with referee approval.
Play is continual with restarts required when the ball leaves the playing field, penalties are taken, points are scored, injuries suffered or the ball is ruled "not playable."
"Tries" are scored by touching the ball down past the goal line (for five points). Two points can then be scored by kicking the ball through the posts from a spot perpendicular to the point where the last try was scored. Therefore, a club that scores a "try" and then adds the conversion kick for two points has just scored a total of seven points.
"Penalty kicks for goal" and "drop kicks for goal" are each worth three points when they go through the goal posts.
A "Scrum" occurs when both teams' forwards interlock to restart play. The ball is "put-in" by a scrum-half, and the forwards struggle to work the ball out with their feet so that it can then be put into play by their team.

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