RUGBY IN FOCUS by Ammonite Press, Press Association, Ltd. (Photos) ( 9781906672584 )

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Title:

RUGBY IN FOCUS
RUGBY UNION IN PICTURES

By:

Ammonite Press, Press Association, Ltd. (Photos)

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

190667258X

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9781906672584

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Publisher:

AE PUBLICATIONS

Pub. date:

21 July, 2011

Pages:

300

Description:

A visual, historical guide to the development and growth of rugby. It includes almost 300 hundred images from the Press Association archives. It also includes background to the successful teams, greatest matches, a players' hall of fame and guide to the hallowed Rugby grounds.

Synopsis:

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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full colour throughout, almost 300 photographs

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Ammonite Press

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