It took years for Eastern Illinois rugby coach Frank Graziano to perfect a five-page recruiting letter he poured his heart into, and when Molly Clutter got one in the mail, she couldn't believe it -- literally.

"I thought it was a joke," she said. "I thought it was a big, fat joke."

Clutter was a high school track athlete who, like the rest of her teammates, had never seen a rugby game before let alone played in one.

It wasn't until Graziano called her and talked to her about the opportunity that the possibility of playing rugby in college became real. 

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