This is a visual, historical guide to the development and growth of
rugby. It includes almost 300 hundred images from the Press
Association archives that capture Rugby's finest moments. It also
includes background to the most successful teams, greatest matches,
a players' hall of fame and guide to the hallowed Rugby grounds. As
far back as the 1830s a form of rugby was being played at Rugby
Public School, after pupil William Webb Ellis first picked up a
football and ran with it. In 1863 the Football Association met to
standardise a common set of rules between the kicking and running
games but failed to meet with the approval of the rugby fraternity.
Twenty-one clubs refused to join the FA and in 1871 set up their
own code of practice as 'The Rugby Union'. The popularity of the
game quickly spread beyond Britain's shores becoming an
international sensation. 100 Years of Rugby in Focus is a visual,
historical record of the development and growth of the game, with
background to more than a century of the most successful teams and
the greatest matches, a players' hall of fame and a guide to the
hallowed grounds where the game is played. This story is told in
more than 400 photographs from the vast archives of the Press
Association, whose photographers were on hand to capture the finest
moments of the sport over more than a century.
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