Rugby any one

It was announced this evening on the sports news that a Fort Wayne Rugby team is going to compete for a national championship. I personally never played Rugby but I'm familiar with the game because my daughter played it, on a coed team, when she was in college. Hearing the mention of it on TV brought back a flash of memory from her Rugby playing days. The first time my husband and I saw her play, in a home game at Earlham College, I was appalled by the roughness of the game. She ran, she was involved in scrums, she was in there 'fighting' for the whole game. Rugby games don't have time outs so the game went pretty fast. My daughter is six feet tall and tough so I wasn't really too worried about her safety, but I kept wondering, as I saw her running up and down the field, what was wrong with her hair. I could tell she had it up in a pony tail but something didn't look quite right.  I found out what was wrong after the game was over. She had had the bottom four inches of her hair shaved off all around her head.  As she explained it to me, that allowed her to tape her ears so they couldn't be torn off. Such a lovely game. Interestingly, when she took her remaining hair out of the pony tail it was heavy enough to hang down and completely cover the shaved part. Instant transformation from rugged Rugby player to the young lady I knew and loved.  So reassuring.