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After the Final Whistle - The First Rugby World Cup and the First World War (Hardcover)
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After the Final Whistle - The First Rugby World Cup and the First World War (Hardcover)
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When Britain's empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players
were the first to volunteer: they led from the front and paid a
disproportionate price. When the Armistice came after four long
years, their war game was over; even as the last echo of the guns
of November faded, it was time to play rugby again. As Allied
troops of all nations waited to return home, sport occupied their
minds and bodies. In 1919, a grateful Mother Country hosted a rugby
tournament for the King's Cup, to be presented by King George V at
Twickenham Stadium. It was a moment of triumph, a celebration of
military victory, of Allied unity and of rugby values, moral and
physical. Never before had teams from Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, South Africa, Britain and France been assembled in one
place. Rugby held the first ever 'World Cup' - football would not
play its own version until 1930. In 2015 the modern Rugby World Cup
returns to England and Twickenham as the world remembers the
Centenary of the Great War. With a foreword by Jason Leonard, this
is the story of rugby's journey through the First World War to its
first World Cup, and how those values endure today.
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