Mike Liscovitz

It was in the fall of 1976 that Ed Windas recruited Mike Liscovitz, his former teammate from Wilkes-Barre, to come and play with the Monmouth Rugby Football Club. They had played, first, together when they were at Kings College, for Wilkes-Barre, a few years prior. Mike immediately became part of the First Side, and is considered one of the primary cogs in the success and development of the club in the nineteen seventies. It was under the coaching and administrative guidance of Brian Harris, as well as the comparative play from new inductee, Larry “don’t call me Lawrence” Fox, as well as many others that Monmouth moved from needing to change their colors, annually to avoid embarrassment, to competing with the likes of Old Blue, Essex and Blackthorn.

It was during this time, that Monmouth Rugby got our first taste of Division 1 rugby in the Metropolitan Union, and Mike’s play earned him distinction for four years as a member of both the Met Union, and eastern Rugby Union select sides, from 1977 to 1981. He was also selected as a USA Eagle, in 1977 and remained in the pool until 1980. He was capped three times as a member of the Eagles, once whilst the squad was in Twickenham, taking on the English national team, which he recounts as one of his finest memories with MRFC, along side with beating the once championship stalwart Essex Rugby Club, but we shall not recall the time he may or may not have accosted a league referee during a match with Saint John’s. Some would say it awfully looked like him, but he was on the sidelines at the time, watching the match.

Mike was a 2007 inductee into the Hall of Fame.