Today is the day when a huge number of students get into a deadly fight once a year. So many masculine macho males clash one another, and some injuries are carried on stretchers. This is actually so dangerous. Since I am not totally masculine, I don窶冲 dare to participate in this battle. But I love to watch them fighting, even cheering up. We call this fight Somei match – a traditional annual rugby football game between two college students, Waseda and Meiji. I, as a Waseda student, get so much excited for and have looked forward to every year.

What I am so attracted to this event is the energetic and powerful pace of the game. I strongly believe this atmosphere is only picked up by watching a game at the stadium. If this is TV, no one thinks rugby is interesting, because a TV camera eventually doesn窶冲 let us see what we want to see, but it shows us what the camera crew wants to see or thinks important, and which doesn窶冲 fit our concern in many cases.

What is interesting to see a rugby game is the quick deployment of the player. Rugby is not a sport that a ball is important, but the movements of other players are important. However, TV cameras won窶冲 let us see what is going on around the ground. They just show us what is going on around the ball. This is true that the audience sitting on the seats cannot see the details of the players, but what is important is to observe the movement of the players and think the strategy.

When I was a sophomore, I went to this fight for the first time ever, and I was so impressed by the quick development of the game and the shouts from the audience. I didn窶冲 know the rules at that time (I don窶冲 understand it even now), but I was just surprised at the atmosphere. It was just awesome! It is even awesome to shout something out when got points!

Since then, I went to see a match uncountable times including Japanese college championship when Waseda finally won. That was so impressive and dramatic. There is a song that is sung only when our rugby team reaches the top of the Japanese championship. This is inherited only among our rugby team, so most of the students don窶冲 know including me. Many alumni also don窶冲 know. I was just very fortunate to have had chances to hear it twice.

During my years of Waseda life, our rugby team is disparately strong. It is true that there were some losing game, but the vast majority of my memory is wining game. It was just fortunate though, I still feel so happy to have been a Waseda student for this 5-year.

This match was the last game of the college championship just for the Kanto region. So I automatically expect our team to win the championship for all over the nation which is held in the early January. I would love to see the game, if possible, at the stadium.

Today was actually so cold whether, and in addition, it was rainy. It was so chilly. I thought that I was going to die from cold, seriously. But January would be expected even colder whether. However, I am sure that an enthusiastically heated game will be held for both Waseda and the counterpart. I expect an extremely and overwhelmingly heated game in order not to quake from cold.