Rams and Beavers play out in the snow

Calgary Canucks and Calgary Rams play in the snow. The opening game of the 2019 rugby season, Calgary Rugby Park, May 4, 2019. © J. Ashley Nixon

Calgary Canucks and Calgary Rams played a Rugby Alberta Division 2 on the opening Saturday of the 2019 rugby season at Calgary Rugby Park. Here’s the essential match report:

The Rams won, 39-10. It snowed. The snow was pretty. The rugby wasn’t.

Winter is coming (back again; in May).

Action from the game

For more photos of snow and rugby in this game and other rugby matches, please visit J. Ashley Nixon Communications.

The Calgary Canucks: Fifty Years of Rugby

My new book (176 pages and filled with photographs, interviews and more) celebrating fifty years of rugby in the Calgary Canucks will be published in May 2019.

Please contact me if you would like to learn more, or order a copy.