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Unfortunately the original article on rl1908.com isn't there anymore, I'm not sure why Sean decided to do that, he did send me a link to where a lot of his older content was still available but I seem to have lost it at the moment
Tony Collins has also published a few books on the sports' history but can sometimes be either hard and/or expensive to get hold of.
Unfortunately the original article on rl1908.com isn't there anymore, I'm not sure why Sean decided to do that, he did send me a link to where a lot of his older content was still available but I seem to have lost it at the moment
Tony Collins has also published a few books on the sports' history but can sometimes be either hard and/or expensive to get hold of.
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Quote: RL13 "Wow, thanks. I've been curious about that for ages. Nice to know!
What i'm also curious about, if anyone else could enlighten me; before the play-the-ball was introduced - was there really a scrum formed after each tackle? That must have been ghastly to watch.
Also when the play-the-ball was first introduced. I understand it wasn't the PtB we have today (with two markers). So, what did it constitute?'"
I can't recall the bit about the scrums. We played rugby union rules for a few years just as the northern union so depneds what they moved to after that. Find it hard to believe they went to scrums.
Must say in the 1895 and all that book.
If you're really interested in the history, get a copy of
"Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football" by Tony Collins.
It explores the origins of football, and the massive changes in society during the Victorian era that led to the codifying and organisation of sport, and what led to the formation of Northern Union (later to become RL).
One tip though, don't read the foreword where he deals with how he treated his sources, talk about dense academia. The rest of the book though is highly readable and fascinating.
Every rugby fan should read it!
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