History
In 1949, "rugby criollo" was introduced into the Carrasco Polo Club, which not unlike the Montevideo Cricket Club (MVCC), would become more renowned for rugby than the sport it was named for.
In 1950, the Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby was inaugurated and continues today. The first Club Championship was contested by Old Boys, Colonia Rugby, and multisport clubs such as the MVCC and Carrasco Polo Club (which supplied two XVs).
Carrasco Polo Club was transformed by the coaching of Amarillo Washington, who used scientific methods to replace the earlier habits of "training hard, but then after matches going to the bar to eat and drink everything." Carrasco's leading player Diego Ormaechea had been introduced to the sport as a fifteen-year-old in 1976 and was still playing for club and country more than twenty years later.
In 1993, Carrasco Polo Club beat a Buenos Aires squad which included 14 Pumas.
The club's main rivals are Old Christians Club and Old Boys Club.
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