doug defors

YEARS PLAYED: 1973 – 1984

POSITION[S]: Lock, prop, flanker

POSITION[S]: Flanker, prop

Influential UMRFC players: Terry Larrimer, Walt Holloway, Jay Gore, Cleland Child, Herb Hopkins, and my old faithful prop Keith Stone

Other clubs and select teams played for: Michigan Select, Church Street Barbarians, Princeton Old Boys, and the BATS

Memorable games, plays, tours, off field event: 1977 Dada summer tour that no-one can remember. All our M select matches beating Ohio. And the best college match ever in 1976 when we beat Notre Dame away under the lights, then kicked their asses again in song until they left their own party. Sweet.

CURRENT LOCATION: Windsor CA.

OCCUPATION: Museum Registrar

FAMILY: Wife Michelle and two daughters

Miscellaneous: Rugby must be the greatest sport in the world, how else would you get doctors and lawyers to play nicely together and drink heavily afterward?