Old Christians currently plays in Primera División, the top division of local rugby system.

On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying five crew members and 40 players and associates of Old Christians' rugby team crashed in the remote Andes, en route to Chile.

Nine passengers and three crew members died in or shortly after the crash, and five more quickly succumbed to cold and injury.

Of the 28 onboard who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage.

Faced with starvation and radio news that the search for them had been abandoned in the second week, the survivors fed on the dead who had been preserved in the snow.