In contrast, the skills, athleticism, and success of the colonial tourists seemed to demonstrate how rugby could help to develop a healthy, masculine nation.
In fact, rugby of whatever code occupied a distant second place compared to the popularity of soccer with troops on active service.
I turned up for my first ever movement class in my rugby kit, shorts and a striped top!
As well as garnering sizeable attendances, the first few weeks of 1915 saw something like a structured season develop for military rugby teams.
Once it was over, rugby league barely mentioned the war.
On his way home alone from a rugby club meeting he is confronted by four young would-be muggers who pursue him into a cul-de-sac.
By the 1830s, however, the solitude of walking was replaced by the gruelling competitive sports of rowing and, subsequently, rugby.
He brought many of us in the band closer to rugby.
