{"id":803,"date":"2016-02-08T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/08\/furman-to-host-catamounts\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:59:42","slug":"furman-to-host-catamounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-host-catamounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to host Catamounts Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FurmanvsCitadel_0245.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4183 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 470px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 470\/377;border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Rugby\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FurmanvsCitadel_0245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"377\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>The Furman football team won&#8217;t be the only Paladin squad to take on Western Carolina this Saturday. The Furman men&#8217;s rugby team will host the Catamounts in the team&#8217;s home opener 11 a.m., Saturday at Roberts Field.<\/p>\n<p>The squad is coming off a better-than-expected 4-2 finish in the Southern Conference\u00a0 Sevens Tournament, held last weekend in Wilmington, N.C. \u00a0The Paladins enter the game with a fall 21-member roster that includes 13 freshmen, five sophomores, a junior, one senior and one high school senior who will enroll at Furman next fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know many coaches say \u00a0they have young squads, but we really, really do,\u201d says Paladin Head Coach John Roberts.\u00a0 \u201cOur coaches have been working hard to teach the game, and the players have been working hard, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Furman team is led by co-captain Turner Morsches, an inside center who sat all the spring season \u00a0with a cracked rib and Jack Farnsworth, a senior prop.\u00a0 Freshman Nick Rossano, the first recipient of the Furman Rugby Scholarship Fund, has also made an early impact.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with tradition, the Furman Rugby Club welcomes parents to a tailgate during this \u201cFamily Weekend\u201d event. Food and beverages will be available near the south end of our stands for family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman football team won&#8217;t be the only Paladin squad to take on  Western Carolina this Saturday. The Furman men&#8217;s rugby team will host  the Catamounts in the team&#8217;s home opener 11 a.m., Saturday at Roberts  Field<\/p>\n<p>The  squad is coming off a better-than-expected 4-2 finish in the Southern  Conference\u00a0 Sevens Tournament, held last weekend in Wilmington, N.C.  \u00a0The Paladins enter the game with a fall 21-member roster that includes  13 freshmen, five sophomores, a junior, one senior and one high school  senior who will enroll at Furman next fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-athletics","category-rugby","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}