[4] Then referred to as All America, a team composed of California collegiate rugby players first toured Australia in 1910,[5] competing in twenty matches against multiple state-representative sides and the then recently-formed New Zealand Māori.
[9] After the All Blacks tour, amid a time where prominent California colleges and universities were transitioning back to playing American football from rugby union, no further matches were held.
[11] After each of the home nations declined to send a team to the Games on account of scheduling conflicts with their domestic competitions, and the teams from Romania and Czechoslovakia withdrew from the Games on short notice, the Olympic rugby union competition was reduced to a single match between the United States and France.
[16] A final match against the France national team was held on October 10, 1920 in Paris, resulting in a 14–5 defeat for the Americans.
[16] Daniel Carroll, veteran of the 1913 team, served as player-coach in 1920;[16] he was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2016.
[20] This time, however, the Olympic competition expanded to a three-team round-robin tournament with the United States, France, and Romania competing.
[22] Charles Doe, who acted as captain in Slater's absence in the Olympic match against Romania, was the team's vice-captain.
[25] USA Rugby was formally organized in June 1975 and fielded its first men's national team on January 31, 1976 in a test match against Australia—a 24–12 defeat.