[1][2] The club was founded by a Northeastern University student and rugby enthusiast named Bob Hubbard in 1984.

The team's practices were held on a small triangle of dirt on Huntington Avenue across from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which is now the Wentworth Institute of Technology athletic complex.

Kalaijakis turned the rag-tag group into a team, under him the club drafted a constitution and elected leaders yearly.

Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale competed in NERFU until fall 2009, leaving to join the new Ivy League Conference.

Their undefeated season led them to the National Championship Round of 16, where they lost to Stony Brook University 24-22.

[5] Northeastern's fall 2012 season resulted in a 5-2 record, with losses to Boston College and Middlebury, to finish 3rd in the conference.

They missed out on a bid to the USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships by losing to American International College in the final.

The conference includes 18 different Universities from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Delaware.

The Maddogs took home the bowl trophy to cap off an impressive season which saw them finish with a record of 8-0 and a national ranking of 32.