{"id":848,"date":"2016-03-30T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/30\/furman-to-host-sherman-saturday\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:54:55","slug":"furman-to-host-sherman-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-host-sherman-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to host Sherman Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman will host Sherman Chiropractic College 11 a.m. Saturday at Roberts Field in a just-scheduled contest.<\/p>\n<p>Sherman\u2019s previously scheduled game against St. Andrews (Greer) was cancelled. With the Paladins idle, coaches from both teams worked quickly early this week to arrange a contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had scheduled an open week just to give guys a chance to take a breather and heal up,\u201d said Furman Coach John Roberts. \u201cBut we have been fortunate this year as there have been no major injuries.\u00a0 We have a young team that is improving from week to week so the more rugby the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.sherman.edu\/rugby\/default.asp\">Sherman<\/a>, a chiropractic college located in Spartanburg, launched its rugby program earlier this fall. The squad competes as a men\u2019s team and is composed of young adults.<\/p>\n<p>The squad is 0-2 on the year, but has been competitive in games.<\/p>\n<p>Furman is coming off a 47-5 win over Davidson College and, counting 7s games, is 12-4 this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman will host Sherman Chiropractic College 11 a.m. Saturday at Roberts Field in a just-scheduled contest.<\/p>\n<p>Sherman\u2019s  previously scheduled game against St. Andrews (Greer) was cancelled.  With the Paladins idle, coaches from both teams worked quickly early  this week to arrange a contest.<\/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":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}