The South Shore Anchors Rugby Football Club is a

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

team based in

Weymouth, Massachusetts ("To Work Is to Conquer") , image_map = Norfolk County Massachusetts incorporated and unincorporated areas Weymouth highlighted.svg , mapsize = 250px , map_caption = Location in Norfolk County in Massa ...

, United States. The club competes in, and is governed by, the

New England Rugby Football Union The New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) is a Geographical Union (GU) for rugby union teams in New England. Prior to 2013, NERFU had been a local area union ("LAU"), and part of the Northeast Rugby Union (NRU), which is the governing body for ...

(their LAU), the Northeast Rugby Union (their TAU), and

USA Rugby USA Rugby (officially the United States of America Rugby Football Union, Ltd.) is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in the United States. Its role is to achieve and maintain “high levels of quality in all aspects of ru ...

. The team has about 30-40 active players and is member of Division I of the New England Rugby Football Union.About South Shore Anchors
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References

External links

Official site

New England Rugby Football Union
1999 establishments in Massachusetts Rugby clubs established in 1999 Rugby union teams in Boston Sports in Norfolk County, Massachusetts Weymouth, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-sport-team-stub